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...Geneva, at the Third World-dominated U.N. Commission on Human Rights, U.S. Delegate Allard K. Lowenstein proposed that the organization request information from the Soviets on the arrest and detention of dissidents. In response, the Russian delegate, Valerian Zorin, launched into an angry hour-long diatribe against the American's "illegal abuse of the commission's authority" and warned that "inventing pretexts for defending human rights is not conducive to positive development of Soviet-American relations...
...weeks protesting Jewish youths and rabbis have pressured the National Council of Churches to oust Archbishop Valerian Trifa, head of the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, from its governing board. The problem: Trifa, 62, stands accused of having incited mobs that murdered hundreds of Jews in Rumania...
...middle of the 3rd century, chaos at the center had led to weakness at the outposts. The Goths became uncontrollable, and when the Emperor Valerian tried to fight off the Persians, he was captured and finally skinned and stuffed with straw. As Gibbon breaks off his story, early in the 4th century, a number of strong Emperors-Aurelian, Diocletian, Constantine-have temporarily imposed a kind of order, but it is clear that their strength is that of men, not of enduring institutions, and that the fall of the empire is inescapable. Gibbon is no moralist intent on admonisinng modern readers...
...Valerian Zorin met with several members of the Russian Research Center, including director Adam Ulam, professor of Government, and associate director Edward L. Keenan, master of North House...
Diplomats are expected to do their best to get to be au courant with the fundamental developments in art, as in everything else. Therefore Russian Ambassador to France M. Valerian Zorin kept his eyes peeled as he moved through the recent opening of the annual "Painters, Witness of Their Times" show in Paris. Going in the opposite direction was Brigitte Bardot-not exactly the living end, but a sculpture by Mougin...