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...countries in a pet Soviet project, the European Security Conference. The Soviet goal in such a conference is undoubtedly to confirm existing borders in Europe and to undermine the rationale for NATO by offering guarantees against aggression in Europe. But the ministers had badly misreckoned. In a swift riposte, Tass, the Soviet government news agency, described the idea of mutual troop reductions as "absolutely unacceptable to the Socialist countries...
There are other shards pointing to Brezhnev's ascension. In a fulsome news report, Tass announced Brezhnev's nomination as a candidate in the June 14 elections for the Supreme Soviet, describing him as "a true Leninist" and "a tireless fighter." Another Tass item lumped together announcements of the nominations of Kosygin, Podgorny and one Victor Yermilov, an obscure Moscow machine-tool fitter. Such clues are minor and not conclusive, but the combined weight of the evidence is impressive...
...Tass, the Soviet news agency, is keeping an extra sharp watch on homage to Lenin during the leader's centennial year, and it believes it has spotted an increased interest in the master's works among the youth of an American city far from the Kremlin walls (see THE WORLD, "The Drive to Make Lenin a Secular Saint...
...Baltimore. To hear Tass tell it, the whole world is caught up in a frenzy of anticipation. Interest in Lenin is growing in American cities, says Tass, including Baltimore, where his books are "undoubtedly most popular with youth." Calcutta and Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin...
...Homeland. The anti-Zionist drive follows some characteristic Soviet patterns. There was a letter to Tass from a Jewish doctor in Uzbekistan: "We have never had and never will have anything in common with Zionists. We have only one homeland: the Soviet Union." Meetings of Jews were held in factories and on farms to proclaim their satisfaction with life in the Soviet Union. A group of rabbis condemned Zionists as evil men "who every day sow death and destruction on the occupied Arab lands...