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...producer of the elegant Mercedes automobiles, is trying to line up a consortium of Common Market truck makers for the Soviet project. Discussions are already under way with France's Renault. Another likely member is Italy's Fiat, which is building a huge auto plant in Stavropol, which was renamed Togliatti in honor of the late Italian Communist leader. Daimler-Benz wants help in financing the $1.09 billion project; the Soviets will repay the loan over a long term at rates to be settled later...
...longer was Bulganin in Caucasian exile as chairman of the obscure Stavropol Economic Council. He had been banished there for siding with Khrushchev's "antiparty" foes in the big 1957 leadership showdown. Even after he had made a groveling confession of his "mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee late in 1958, the local zealots in Stavropol apparently kept calling him an enemy of the state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented...
...necessary to the party. I have sincerely confessed my mistakes. I have asked the Central Committee to get me back on the party rails. I ask only that it let me fullfill the duties which have been entrusted to me, the duties of chairman of the Stavropol economic council, and I shall endeavor without sparing my energies to remove from myself this spot of shame...
Catching Up with the East. At the North Caucasian city of Stavropol he loosed a proud thunderbolt: "When the figures for the Soviet Seven-Year-Plan (1959-65) become known, the whole world will be amazed at the prospects of the development of the socialist society." From Trade Union Chief Viktor Grishin in Moscow came a few figures to match, promising to achieve by '65 what had originally been targeted...
...Stefansson, Eielson's close friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging him to ask help directly from Soviet stations...