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...invaded Russia, that has not yet accepted the postwar Oder-Neisse frontier and, moreover, now demands nuclear weapons. French aides noted signs of Gaullist irritation: the general's nods came with such regularity that he resembled a ticking time bomb and his hands clenched tight on the carved Romanov griffins of his chair. De Gaulle's response would have pleased his NATO allies if he had uttered it in their presence. "It is necessary," he said when Brezhnev finally finished, "to proceed by stages. The future lasts a long time, and blocs do not dissolve overnight...
Anya (Constance Towers) is an attractive girl who has just finished a wet run on suicide by diving into a canal, and is drying out in a Berlin nut house, in 1925. In two words, her vocabulary is "Anastasia Romanov." Who should hear about her but Bounine the taxi driver? Well, part-time taxi driver. General Bounine (Michael Kermoyan) is one of those loyal servants of the Czar of All the Russias, without whom the czardom could scarcely have fallen. Bounine does not believe that the girl escaped the Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, but he plays Professor Higgins...
...accomplishments of the Soviet economy mentioned by Soviet Letter Writer Ivan Romanov [Nov. 12] are impressive; yet it might be relevant to look also at some of the statistics that most closely affect the Soviet citizen's welfare. Definitive figures will become available only when the central statistical administration publishes its 1965 report next January, but it is possible to make the following estimates on the basis of the official nine-month report and recent speeches by Kosygin, Polyansky and I. T. Novikov. Within the overall volume of industrial production, the targets for producer goods will easily be overfulfilled...
...IVAN ROMANOV Economist Moscow
...Where is China?" asked Czar Mikhail Romanov. "Is it rich? What can we lay claim to?" Russian claims (Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang) caused friction for centuries, down to the present...