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...visited the Caribbean island in 1971-and the biggest crowd Brezhnev had ever received on his frequent travels abroad. Plainly enjoying the effusive Latin welcome, he traded warm abrazos with Castro, and waved continuously on the 25-mile motorcade into Havana from the back of a pale gray open Zil convertible that had been shipped from Moscow, along with a fleet of black Chaika limousines...
While the Canadian diplomatic party was whisked away in black Russian Zil autos, the press corps was crowded into two old camouflaged Russian buses. But the ride into Hanoi was almost pastoral: no soldiers in sight, no guns, no artillery; merely peasants with their straw hats, peacefully working the nearby fields. We passed numerous Chinese and Russian Jeeps and new Soviet trucks, but very few civilian cars. Traffic consisted mostly of bicycles and bullock carts. Hanoi itself was very much as I remembered it-a 19th century French colonial city of yellow stucco buildings, scrupulously clean streets lined with lichee...
...significant not only to Czechoslovakia but to all of Communist Eastern Europe. If nothing else, Skoda's snappy, rugged little family compact, the 1000 MB, proves that Communism can at least try to compete in highly competitive western auto markets. Where such products as Russia's Zil and East Germany's Trabant have failed to make even the smallest dent in the Western market, Skoda's 1000 MB has become increasingly popular on roads from Cologne to Christchurch, N.Z. Last year Skoda turned out 77,000 of the cars, up from 60,000 in 1965. Nearly...
Limited Trust. The Khrushchevs apparently have been assigned a six-room apartment in a pillared and balconied building next to the Canadian embassy on Staro-Konyushenny (Old Stable) Lane. Another sign of Khrushchev's relatively comfortable retirement was the chauffeur-driven ZIL limousine in which he and Wife Nina rode off from the apartment last week. They were headed just around the corner to vote in the municipal elections. Walking under a huge sign that read "Dobro Pozhalovat" (Welcome), Khrushchev waved off a voting official who signaled him to the head of the line. When he reached the table...
...sunset, Khrushchev and Ustinov landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where a ZIL limousine waited. The long black car whipped across the Lenin Hills, along Kremlevskaya Quai, where lights glittered on the Moskva River...