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...Russians were sure-handed in orchestrating what they now call Operatsia Kissingera. Sleek convoys of Zil and Chaika limousines flowed between the Secretary's guesthouse in the Lenin Hills and the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. Tables groaned under caviar, salmon, sturgeon, steak, beef Stroganoff, fruits and Georgian wines. There was even a special celebration for Kissinger's daughter Elizabeth, who was traveling with her father and who turned 15 in Moscow. She received a birthday cake from the American embassy, a present from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and VIP seats for herself and Brother David...
MOST OF The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play-within-a-play, an entertainment put on by a Georgian singer for two collective farms which have agreed to redivide their lands after helping to drive the Nazis from the Soviet Union. The singer's play tells about the tribulations of Grusha, a girl who in the old days when Kazbek princes ruled Georgia took pity on a governor's son during a palace revolution; and about the trials of Azdak, a peasant who during the revolt managed to make himself a judge, and used the lawbooks for sitting on, turning...
...story Georgian-style office building on London's Smith Square, Prime Minister Edward Heath strode into Tory Party headquarters to sound the keynote for his campaign for reelection. "It is essential to have a strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed...
...meantime, Agnew hopes to raise some ready cash by selling his suburban Maryland home outside Washington. The asking price for the 9-room Georgian-style house, which Agnew purchased for $190,000 about a year ago: $325,000. Most of the increase is the result of $125,000 worth of "protective improvements" ordered by the Secret Service. The former Vice President is not required to reimburse the Government for such improvements once out of office. Agnew still has not found a buyer, and even if he manages to get the price he is asking, there are still those irksome debts...
...Leaf. Part of Shevardnadze's campaign is to expose shocking examples of Georgian gracious living like the one recently revealed by the local party newspaper, Zarya Vostoka. It reported that 4,000 families, including those of many party officials, had simply dropped out of the Communist economic system and were living by private enterprise-on choice acreage along Georgia's Black Sea coast. The most lurid revelation was saved for the grave pages of Pravda itself. The party newspaper reported that with "party connivance" scores of "marble dachas" had sprouted "like mushrooms" all over Georgia, while shortages persisted...