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...days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...
From across the Soviet border, Iran has been subjected to an unprecedented propaganda campaign of hate against the Shah. Powerful transmitters at Baku and Tashkent, between bursts of fine Persian music, devoted more time to programs in Parsi than the Russians spend on any other foreign-language broadcast except English. "Foreigners are pouring into Iran like ants and locusts, depriving Iranians of their rights," cried Russia on the air. The Shah and the landlords around him are secreting millions of dollars of oil profits in New York and London bank accounts, charged one Communist commentator. At the rate the Shah...
...Boss Aidit slowly journeyed home from Moscow, with stops at the Soviet Asian city of Tashkent, where his wife is studying medicine, and at Peking in Red China, he got word that President Sukarno had decided to go back to the old constitution of 1945, to include 35 army officers in his government, and to exclude the Reds from the Cabinet and from major governmental posts...
...latest Communist switch dates from September, with the arrival in Cairo of the Soviet Union's newest authority on Middle East affairs. Nuritdin Akramovich Mukhitdinov, 41, a Moslem from Tashkent who last year was promoted to the ruling Soviet Presidium, is its youngest member and only Moslem. Shortly after Mukhitdinov had four sessions with Nasser, Syrian Communist Chief Khaled Bakdash returned from exile in Eastern Europe to Damascus, and Mustafa Barzani, famed Kurdish rebel long harbored in Soviet exile, arrived back in Iraq. The Kurds (whose great leader in the time of the Crusades was Saladin) are a volatile...
...home, too, the Soviet regime felt the need for tightening up. Last year Khrushchev proposed a radical decentralization of ministries, creating 105 regional enclaves, which the 105 bosses have tried to remake into self-contained little kingdoms. Plants dependent on outside supplies found them hard to get. In Tashkent, for example, the Voroshilov farm machinery works had to lay off workers for two months when shipments of vital castings from the Stalingrad tractor works failed to appear. Last week the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, worried by a "chain reaction" that is growing "like an avalanche." published a decree imposing...