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...Camelot label, though, doesn't do justice to West Hollywood, whose charm and eccentricity extend far beyond matters of affectional preference. Says Severyn Ashkenazy, who owns a string of small, elegant hotels in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood: "At night, downtown Los Angeles is dead and Beverly Hills is boring. West Hollywood is the place for those who are interested in night life and in meeting different kinds of people, creative people." He adds, in the ultimate compliment for one educated and accented in Paris, "It's the Left Bank of Beverly Hills...
...Columbia Sovietologist Severyn Bialer points out, if the Soviets were to try developing a wide spectrum of advanced technology on their own, they would have to give Russian scientists a freer climate of inquiry and increased intellectual exchanges with the outside world. The Kremlin's leaders are aware that West German Chancellor Willi Brandt, France's Pompidou and other Western statesmen hope to use trade as a means of converting Soviet society into one that would be consumer-oriented and less militant. But the Soviets are interested in trade only to enhance their economic strength and political power...
...borders, which at least partly explained Moscow's readiness to sign a nonaggression pact with West Germany. In the Middle East, on the other hand, it is relatively cheap to keep things tense as long as a major conflict with the U.S. can be avoided. As Columbia University Sovietologist Severyn Bialer says, Moscow knows that "a state of crisis is the only guarantee of a continued Soviet influence among the Arab states...
...insignificant regional party secretary, one of more than a hundred such factotums scattered throughout Russia. Today he is one of the ten members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the most powerful executive body in the U.S.S.R. "Katushev is the man to watch," says Columbia University Sovietologist Severyn Bialer. "His rise has been spectacular, unheard of. It is largely due to Brezhnev, who may be grooming him to replace Kosygin eventually...
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