Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Union has always subcribed, in theory, to the concept of rule by committee--Presidiums, Politburos, etc. In the past the theory has broken down and power in the USSR has always seemed to devolve to one man--possibly this happened because the needs of material development were the most pressing ones at the time. Today, however, the Soviet Union is governed in a partnership, an uneasy but still functioning one, between the Party (in Brezhnev) and the government (in Premier Kosygin). This fusion of the legislature (the Communist Party plays the role of a legislature in the Soviet Union...
Died. Gerhart Eisler, 71, Communist agent and propagandist, who in 1949 escaped from U.S. authorities and set up shop in East Germany; of a heart attack; in the Republic of Armenia, USSR Emigrating to the U.S. from France during World War II, Eisler became the classic agent, a bespectacled little man living quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime...
Cuba is really the only country to boast a campaign so successful. The rapidity of its success is particularly remarkable. (The other outstanding example of progress is the USSR, where advance was slower, but the problem was also of a very different magnitude.) The Cuban campaign began in January, 1961, with an appeal to secondary students to "help in the battle." Thirty-four thousand professional teachers trained and directed the student volunteers. Castro mobilized 268,420 of them for what UNESCO estimated was a fantastic student-teacher ratio of three...
Nine delegations reportedly threatened a walk-out over the Venezuelan issue, but when the door was opened for them, they remembered that they were attending a solidarity conference, and stayed put. The resolution passed. So did the resolution condemning the USSR. But "la unica camina" was changed to read: "The armed struggle is the principal road to liberation of Latin America. All other forms of the struggle must be subordinate...
...greatest scorn is reserved for United States foreign policy. He maintains that the period of cruelty in Russia is over, and that since World War II the policies of the USSR have been better directed toward peace than those...