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...said the cardinal in his peroration, "the recognition of the Holy Spirit outside the limits of the Catholic church establishes a bridge to our 'separated brethren' and enlarges the order of the church as such. And God's work among our brethren establishes a common ba sis from which the attempt must be made to continue a sincere fraternal and patient dialogue in which the issues which divide us can be clarified. This we view as the first step of the road along which God can ultimately lead us to each other...
...Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
Opposition. Though Ne Win is conceded to be honest and hardworking, easygoing Burmese long for the good old good-for-nothing government of U Nu, whose photo is still hawked on the streets and outsells that of Ne Win by a wide margin. One opposition leader, U Ba Swe, called on Ne Win "to retreat from the brink of disaster for the sake of the nation," and the ex-Ambassador to the U.S., U Win, demanded a return to parliamentary democracy. Both were packed off to "protective custody," along with nine other dissenters from instant socialism...
...Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman, is to the "ba-roquenik - a music lover with both taste and audacity, some still in college, most between 25 and 35 - the kind of person who buys the program first and the art ist second, and buys from the top of the house down...
Today the signs of Sovietization are everywhere. The architecture of Ulan Ba tor is Stalin-modern. The national newspaper Unen is a replica of Moscow's Pravda, and both words mean "truth." The farmers and herdsmen are grouped in collectives and on state farms, as in Russia. The No. i Communist, Tsedenbal, heads both the government and the party, as Khrushchev does in Moscow. Ulan Bator has a mausoleum, containing Sukhe Bator's remains, similar to the Lenin tomb in the Soviet capital. In 1946, Mongols adopted the Russian Cyrillic alphabet; their army is Russian trained and equipped...