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EVEN as the U.S.S.R. reaches westward to conclude agreements on commerce and cooperation with the U.S. and Europe, the Kremlin has seemed increasingly anxious to prevent détente from penetrating Soviet borders. Since Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow last May, the screws have been clamped ever tighter on expressions of dissent in Russia. Now some Western observers think that the Soviets are poised on the brink of the most massive crackdown since Stalin's death...
...unprepared. Yet she instantly sent two armies into East Prussia. Both were ill-equipped, underfed and hampered from headquarters by more than the usual complement of careerist nitwits, blockheaded aristocrats and plain cowards familiar in the literature of military debacle. In the resulting battle, the Russian Second Army, lumbering westward in the vicinity of Tannenberg, was enveloped by the Germans. More than 90,000 prisoners were taken. In a few days, despite great courage shown by many Russian regiments and officers, the Second Army ceased to exist. Its brave but confused commander, General Alexander Samsonov, committed suicide. The Russian General...
...Republican assault on McGovern and the attempt to isolate him from the rest of the Democratic Party continued as Nixon headed westward from Miami Beach on his opening campaign trip. Addressing the annual convention of the American Legion in Chicago, he invoked the names of such Democratic Presidents as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as having spoken often "in eloquent terms of the need for a strong national defense." On the other hand, again without naming McGovern, Nixon warned against those who "gamble with the safety of the American people under a false banner...
...farther behind the West in technology. The Soviet leaders realize that they need Western technology and long-term credit to help overcome their country's backwardness and to open up the rich petroleum and other mineral deposits in Siberia. Russia has an even more basic reason for turning westward: food. Because of frost damage in the Ukraine and other areas, the U.S.S.R. expects an exceptionally poor harvest of winter wheat this year. It needs the pending wheat sales from the U.S., the largest since the cold war began, to help feed its people during the next year...
Continental, fourth smallest of the eleven U.S. trunk lines, has prospered because it has mostly long-haul routes, running westward from Chicago, and they are cheaper to service than short flights. Six also gets so much productivity from his workers that Continental generates $33,600 in revenues per employee, compared with an average $29,000 for the domestic Big Four of American, Eastern, TWA and United...