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Everyone would rather work for himself and earn more than work for the collective, he laments. "It's the same old story. A real vicious circle. In order to be paid well, people should work full steam, since the kolkhoz has no other resources but their work. But people...
Not a Ruble. U Thant-who has earned Moscow's respect-chiefly wanted to discuss the fact that the U.N. is broke, largely because the Communist bloc has not put up a ruble toward the $140 million annual cost of the Congo and Gaza Strip policing operations.
HOW big a threat to the West is ''ruble diplomacy," the Soviet aid-and-trade program? To find out for TIME, Special Correspondent John Scott recently toured 15 countries in Europe and the Middle East, including the U.S.S.R. and its satellites, interviewing key economists and government officials. He...
Last week Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba accepted his first Communist aid, $27.7 million in ruble credits. He did so while muttering imprecations against the two nations that he had trusted, France and the U.S. To the De Gaulle government, this was less an occasion for regret than proof...
Ever since Sputnik I. the Russians have been ostentatiously flexing their missiles in an artful campaign to persuade the West that in the rocket age, warplanes are not worth a ruble-or a U.S. defense dollar. "Airplanes," sneered Nikita Khrushchev, "belong in museums." But last week at Moscow's...