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...insisted that the stolen bag contained only 100,000 rubles, not 250,000. Furrier Aleksandrov estimated his loss at a mere 45,000 rubles and, at first, even denied owning a diamond watch shown him for identification. What the blackmailed Muscovites feared was revealed in the columns of Moskovskaya Pravda, which stated ominously: "We assume the Anti-Speculation Squad will try to clarify how the victims accumulated such large sums. Speaking plainly, it is hardly usual for a store manager or a fur cutter to possess hundreds of thousands of rubles...
Cairo rumor now has it that Nasser would like to scuttle Gumhuria and turn Akhbar into a kind of Egyptian Pravda. But most Egyptian newsmen argued that in the end Nasser would recognize that he needed the Amins and their lively journalism to get his own message across. Such was obviously the hope of the Amins themselves, who scrupulously refrained from any criticism of Nasser, would only say cautiously: "There has been something of a misunderstanding...
...Pravda announced that Pavlovsky had died "while carrying out his duty" and on Nov. 28, that Efremov had passed away after "a grave illness...
...very duration of the meeting bespoke its lack of results. But there were other confirmations of its failure. In Peking last week, the People's Daily blasted "modern revisionists" who show themselves not "strong enough in the struggle against imperialism." At that, Moscow's Pravda roared back that the "main danger" to Communist progress nowadays was "dogmatism and sectarianism," i.e., Peking's refusal to accept Khrushchev's doctrine of conquering the world by the slower techniques of coexistence...
...should "Pravda Jr.," which is perhaps the liveliest Soviet newspaper, sponsor so unimaginative a book about the future? One guess is that Russia's scientists are not eager to share their private dreams with official reporters. Another is that a not very wonderful world of the future may look sufficiently wonderful to Soviet citizens...