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...exile in Egypt. Who supplies the aircraft is a Balkan mystery. Yugoslavia anxiously disclaims all responsibility, points out that trouble in Albania might be an easy excuse for Russia to make trouble in Yugoslavia. No one in the Balkans has forgotten the repeated promises in Moscow's Pravda that the Red Army will march into Albania when necessary...
...summoned the Alma Ata captain to his box by loudspeaker and ordered him to let the opposing team score two goals. Unlike fixers in acquisitive societies, such as people who rig games in Madison Square Garden, he did not offer the players money. Said Bekbayev, as Moscow's Pravda reported the incident last week: "Isn't it a clever combination I thought up?" Nevertheless, "the Kazakhstan athletes determinedly rejected Bekbayev's proposal. They continued to strive for first place honestly, without machinations, as Soviet athletes should." In fact, the outraged Alma Ata goalie kicked the ball into...
...incident also drew the attention of the authorities to Bekbayev, who, reported Pravda, turned out to be an "ignoramus, bluffer and suppressor of self-criticism." Among other crimes, he had only had a grade-school education and had issued himself two phony diplomas, one of them making him a "Master of Sports...
Last week, with Pravda's expose, Bekbayev's career was at an end and the honor of dear old Alma Ata vindicated. So far, no committee of the Supreme Soviet has grilled Bekbayev on television, but an up & coming commissar named Rudolf Tobeyevich Kefauversky is reportedly studying the U.S. record and getting ready to prove that anything the Americans can do, the Russians can do better...
...three men at the bottom of an unvarying list of fifteen top Russians-the others being the twelve known members of Russia's Politburo, headed by Stalin. Nos. 13,14 and 15, who may soon be announced as Politburocrats, are: Mikhail Suslov, 49, newly appointed editor of Pravda, he travels in Europe on Cominform errands. Panteleimon Ponomarenlco, 49, also a member of the party secretariat; chief food stockpiler; former Premier of his native White Russia and billiard champion there. Matvey Shkiryatov, 68, Old Bolshevik (joined in 1906); for 30 years Stalin's man on the Party Control Commission...