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...think that any day now we will be able to persuade the Iraqis to accept a generous contribution from us. Just to keep them friendly, you know (and out of the lap of the Russians)-like Nasser (whose trained mobs stoned Americans passing out free CARE packages), and Tito (who has kindly accepted $900 million from us, and voted recently with Russia on the Hungarian resolutions...
...Tito accused Peking of opposing "political coexistence" and fighting liberalization inside the Soviet bloc. Red China's new people's communes, he said, have little in common with Marxism, "but if this military trend of socialist development suits them, this is their affair. Only let them leave us alone...
...Tito, in a torrent of aggrievement, wondered: "Why such fierce attacks from the Chinese? Do they perhaps want to show their monolithic character and the strength of their 600 million by making Yugoslavia, at their mere shout, disappear as if it never existed?" Tito guessed that there was a quite different reason for the attacks, "but they dare not say this...
...Yugoslavia the only socialist country the Chinese disagree with?" Tito asked, "or do they wish through us to square accounts with somebody else?"-Nikita Khrushchev, for instance...
...past the Lyric has put on many a fine, star-heavy performance, and last week's cast was again impressive: Viennese Soprano Leonie Rysanek as Aïda, Italian Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato as Amneris, Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as Radames, Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi as Amonasro. But the stage sets looked as though they had been resurrected from an early copy of the Victor Book of Operas: cluttered scenes with every temple, tower and palm frond rendered in tedious detail. And Paris Opera Conductor Georges Sebastian throttled the tempo to a crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into...