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Died. Victor Kravchenko, 61, wartime Soviet .defector, an army captain who sought asylum while on duty as a supply officer in Washington in 1944, briefly held the limelight with his best-selling I Chose Freedom (1946), later changed his name to "Peter Martin" because "I am an American" and continued his writings, though he lived in constant fear of Red reprisal; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in his Manhattan apartment, where friends said he had been depressed over the Viet Nam war "and other things...
Richard Burton, at his very best, gets sturdy opposition from Oskar Werner in a skillful version of the John le Carré thriller about a British Intelligence man who poses as a defector to East Germany...
Even though the Michigan legislature has not succeeded in overturning a gubernatorial veto since 1951, the Democratic majorities in both the house (73-37) and senate (23-15) are so lopsided that the Democrats needed only one Republican defector in each body to give them the necessary two-thirds majority. On the veterans bill in particular, the Democrats saw clear sailing, since 28 G.O.P. house members had voted for the original measure. But they reckoned without Romney's powers of persuasion. At the one-day special session, despite three hours of floor wrangling and a gallery packed with shouting...
...assassination, used implausible means to achieve the seemingly impossible. A registered Democrat, he ran for district attorney on the Republican ticket, with the support of Americans for Democratic Action. Specter won, despite a 2-to-l Democratic registration edge and hoots of "Benedict Arlen" and "Specter the Defector" by his former Democratic colleagues. Specter not only assailed the inefficiency of Incumbent D. A. James
Nobody rejoices over a repentant sinner more than Red China's Premier Chou En-lai-particularly if the sinner is a highly placed defector from the West. To prove it, Chou ordered party flacks to go all out last week on a reception for 74-year-old Li Tsung-jen, Nationalist China's acting President during the final days of the Communist conquest, and Peking's biggest prize so far in the East-West defection game...