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* Last April, a summons to appear in Rome was issued to Swiss Theologian Hans Küng of Tubingen University, who has so far refused to accept the invitation until the Vatican accepts his conditions. One is that Küng be allowed to see the dossier of charges against...
The Silence. No other first novel has ever had such an exclusive private printing, or such an exclusive first audience. Khrushchev wanted to use the book as a weapon in his own power struggle with the hardliners, Mikhail Suslov and Frol Kozlov. By Khrushchev's order, the script was set...
Summons to Moscow. Most impatient of all, it seemed, was Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Last week Brezhnev ordered Dubček to report to Moscow with his personal list of Czechoslovak "counter-revolutionaries"-for comparison with Brezhnev's own. Under pressure from Brezhnev and his Kremlin colleagues, Dub...
Inevitable Pause. Dobrynin arrived on time. While waiting for the presidential summons, he complimented Rostow on his tan, recently acquired in the Virgin Islands, and complained genially about the capital's damp heat. "But Moscow does not regard Washington as a hardship post," he chuckled. Then they went upstairs...
Not everyone in the caravans of refugees was dressed in the bright shirts and shapeless dresses of the poorer Africans. Ibos had been the mandarins of the government, the army, the professions. They had run many of Nigeria's hospitals, done much of its engineering, presided over vast commercial empires...