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...Videla, who had won a plurality (but not the necessary majority) in last month's elections, would be Chile's new President. As the results were announced last week in the Chamber, Communist legislators, raising clenched fists, sang Chile's national anthem. Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, impeccably stony-faced, looked on with other diplomats...
...Inspecting all Soviet Army forces in the Balkans (according to "official Balkan circles"): Marshal Georgi Konstantino-vich Zhukov, former Russian commander in Germany, hitherto rumored in disgrace as governor of Russia's Southern Ukrainian military region. The Ukrainian military district, the report claims, embraces all the Balkans (including the Dardanelles...
...part of Russia's war of nerves on Turkey? In 1940 Zhukov led the troops that took over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania. Odessa is the military district nearest the Dardanelles...
...Zhukov, whose broad bosom jangles from throat to waist with Soviet and Allied medals, been too friendly with U.S. and British generals while he was in Berlin...
...back seat and mingle less & less with outsiders. From Washington last week came a significant story. When General Walter Bedell Smith, who had established close, cordial contacts with many a Soviet brasshat in Berlin, reached Moscow as U.S. Ambassador last spring, he invited seven of them (including Zhukov) to dinner at the Embassy. Only one (not Zhukov) came...