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...Kremlin is making at least a partial effort to put its own history in perspective: Stalin, while not fully rehabilitated, is no longer treated as though he did not exist. In fact, his name was cheered last week when Brezhnev mentioned the late dictator in a Moscow speech. Marshal Zhukov, in oblivion for almost eight years since Khrushchev fired him as Defense Minister, also appeared, and was photographed in full military regalia last week. A Soviet law journal published an astonishing article recently, suggesting that the time had come for Soviet voters to have not one name but a choice...
...plan to nationalize steel to be announced this week involves twelve huge firms that manufacture about 85% of the nation's production. Included would be such giants as Dorman, Long & Co., Stewarts & Lloyds, and the Steel Co. of Wales. This partial takeover is a departure from Labor's brief experiment in 1951, when it attempted to buy up all steel-producing firms, large and small. Even so, the cost of compensation is expected to nick the government some $5.6 billion...
Robert McAfee Brown, professor of Religion at Stanford, said last night that the Catholic Church's admission of partial responsibility for the division of Christianity marks "a significant breakthrough in the ecumenical movement...
Stookey's essay is must reading, even, or perhaps especially, for those dulled to immobility by the Gen Ed debate at Harvard. But its excellence and importance, its partial fulfillment of the goals outlined for this issue are qualities too rarely seen and demonstrates what The Harvard Review can do but does not do often enough...
...pilgrims on this year's hajj were living proof of the fervor that burns within the youngest of the world's universal faiths, second in size only to Christianity. According to Islam's mission-minded Ahmadiyya movement, there are 647 million Moslems around the world; less partial statisticians lower the figure to a still impressive 465 million. Today, 35 countries in Africa and Asia have Moslem majorities. In much of West Africa, Islam now gains converts at a 9-to-l ratio over Christianity...