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Signs of the strategy are evident everywhere, from the prominently displayed statues of Lenin and paintings of Stalin in Addis Ababa to the controversial policies that are creating peasant cooperatives across the countryside. A new constitution, to be adopted later this year, will enshrine the Soviet-oriented ruling Workers' Party of Ethiopia as the "guiding force of the state and the entire society." Says a Western diplomat: "Under the new constitution, Mengistu will have more power than the late Emperor." Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Soviet, East European and Cuban advisers are stationed throughout the Ethiopian armed forces and government...
American Presidents liked to use Harriman as their ambassador plenipotentiary. For Roosevelt, he helped maintain the often uneasy alliance with Stalin and Churchill during World War II. For Truman, he dealt with a cantankerous collection of European nations being rebuilt under the Marshall Plan. For Kennedy, he negotiated the Laos neutrality accords and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. For Johnson, he served as emissary to the Paris peace talks on Viet Nam in 1968. As late as 1976, when Harriman was 84, Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter sent him to Moscow to give assurances to Leonid Brezhnev...
...figures from the Soviet Union's past re-emerged last week in an apparent attempt by Soviet leaders to come to terms with some of the unmentionables in the country's history. The first was Nobel-Prizewinning Writer Boris Pasternak, the second V.M. Molotov, a long-time aide of Stalin...
Molotov, 96, served as Foreign Minister during and after Stalin's regime but was ousted from power by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. Molotov was interviewed by Moscow News, a weekly paper. The article skirted political issues, merely presenting a personality profile on the friendly great grandfather. The paper, however, said Molotov approved of the loosening of limitations on editorial freedom that has accompanied Gorbachev's recent "openness" campaign...
Ukrainians are renowned for being fiercely nationalistic. During the past three centuries, the Russian empire, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia have ruled all or part of Ukraine with an iron fist. In 1933, a famine, killing an estimated seven million Ukrainian villagers, took place under Stalin's control...