Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question-on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, still vote with their feet by fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week...
Educated in Switzerland, emotionally as well as intellectually committed to the West, the Shah is often critical of U.S. policy. He told a TIME correspondent last week: "You say, for example, that we cannot handle military electronic equipment, but if you had started training us four or five years ago, we could handle it now. If you fail to see what we need, you will lose a fantastic opportunity and may be regret it bitterly later on." Iran risked Soviet anger to sign a defense agreement with the U.S., and the Shah, like most of his countrymen, cannot understand John...
...chaotic Middle East, worries over an heir to the throne are certainly preferable to plots to topple it. A veteran U.S. observer in Teheran allowed himself some tempered optimism about Iran: "I wouldn't say we are confident, but the situation today looks a helluva lot better than it did two or three months...
...attacks from the Chinese? Do they perhaps want to show their monolithic character and the strength of their 600 million by making Yugoslavia, at their mere shout, disappear as if it never existed?" Tito guessed that there was a quite different reason for the attacks, "but they dare not say this...
...revelation: Liberty Lover Carl often proved less than democratic about the egalitarian reading habits of his kiddies. "I remember," wrote Helga, "an odd group of books called Bongo, the Jungle Boy. This is etched on my brain because one evening my father stopped in at my room to say goodnight as he was going to his attic quarters. Bongo sailed across the room flapping while a thundering voice reverberated, 'Life's too short for this damned tripe...