Word: russia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party line was obviously a special dividend to De Gaulle, who insists that Russia has not yet paid enough for a summit (TIME, Nov. 2). By delaying a summit, De Gaulle hopes to be able to ensure Russia's good behavior during the U.N. debate on Algeria. Fortnight ago summit-hungry Nikita Khrushchev swallowed hard and publicly proclaimed: "President de Gaulle's recent proposal that the Algerian problem be solved on the basis of self-determination . . . may play an important part in the settlement of the question." Until then, French Communists had dismissed De Gaulle's offer...
...along, the U.N. observer team sent in September to Laos to investigate charges of Communist Viet Nam aggression was hamstrung by explicit instructions to simply look and listen. Otherwise, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge might never have succeeded in his adroit procedural move to create the Laos subcommittee over Russia's negative vote. An investigation would have been subject to Soviet veto, but Lodge's lawyers had found a veto-proof 1946 precedent for "a subcommittee of inquiry" that could receive reports but could not seek facts on its own initiative (TIME, Sept. 21). Predictably...
...another the main course, and so on"), so that no one would feel he was obliged to anyone for individual attention. This seemed hardly consistent with another of Literature and Life's ambitions-to speed up the service, which most of the 12,000 U.S. visitors to Russia this year discovered is a sometime thing (average breakfasting time: one hour...
Died. Julian Ulrych, 71, quiet, self-effacing, $20.44-a-week London hotel dishwasher, a powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...
...there is a psychological factor. Most Russians are well aware that they are far behind the West in most areas. But the Luniks have demonstrated that in science, Russia can not only compete, but in at least one area is clearly ahead. U.S. scientist visitors get the impression that all of Russia's huge resources will be directed toward expanding that lead to cover the whole field of science...