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...nations gathered for the Seventh World Fellowship of Buddhists. Begun in 1950 as a kind of informal, monk-to-monk faith forum, this year's meeting often sounded more like a U.N. debate. Russia's Venerable Lama Jambal Dirji Gomboeve?representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia???urged the conference to "condemn provocations against the borders of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos." Red China and its satellites, which brutally suppressed Buddhism but found plenty of tame monks to collaborate with the regimes, decided to boycott the meeting, charging that it was dominated by the West. Living evidence...
Internationally, he achieved what the Czars had long desired: a foothold for Russia???however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...
...stranger, like the brown-eyed baby's mother, came from Georgia in the wild, fierce south of Russia???a land of authentic brigands who sniped at Tsarist officials from behind romantic mountain crags and unromantically ignored Georgia's pink & purple sunsets. As she grew to childhood, the locksmith's daughter knew her father's friend, the future Dictator of Russia, by his Georgian nicknames. "Soso" and "Koba." His daring robberies (which he called ''expropriations'') seemed as natural to her as his still more daring murders ("executions")?for were they all not done to get money for the Communist cause...
Stubborn Josef Stalin was still trying to avoid last week the mistake that crippled Imperial Russia???war with Japan. But events darkly occurring in Manchuria kept all the Russias on the qui vive...
...profit becomes, so to speak, 'frozen' at the end of each period?or is exported?whereas under the Socialist system every cent of 'profit' is returned to the workers, not only in the form of wages but in material and cultural construction. Thus in the Socialist state?in Soviet Russia???there is no frozen money, so that supply and demand are adjusted automatically...