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Just as Soviet Power Station. Minister Ignaty Novikov was all set to fly home after attending ground-breaking ceremonies for President Nasser's Aswan Dam, an urgent cable arrived from the boss. Putting off his departure, Novikov rushed to Nasser's palace with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's message: "The government of the Soviet Union hereby expresses its readiness to join in the construction of the second stage of the Aswan High Dam on the same terms as agreed for the first." Hours later, Nasser sent his "greatly overjoyed" acceptance...
Then, in the presence of Morocco's visiting King Mohammed V, Soviet Power Station Minister Ignaty Novikov, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and scores of other dignitaries, including the American and British charges d'affaires. President Gamal Nasser yanked the switch that exploded ten tons of dynamite in the river cliff. At last, work had begun on the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, which when built will be a mightier achievement than the proudest pyramid of the Pharaohs. It will increase Egypt's arable land by one-third, reclaiming 1,000,000 acres of desert...
Beagle for the NKVD. Feodor Novikov, protagonist of The Fall of a Titan, is only 16 when the revolution comes to Rostov in October 1917 and claims his parents among its first victims. Bent on survival, young Feodor informs on a starving army officer and learns that the way to get ahead in the new people's paradise is to curry favor with the Marxists. Soon he is an unofficial beagle for the NKVD, spying on his fellow students. Later, as a lecturer at the University of Rostov, he keeps tabs on his faculty colleagues. Chafing with ambition, Feodor...
Gorin likes Feodor, and before long Novikov's subtle brand of doubletalk has the old writer naively whitewashing Stalinist tyranny by eulogizing Russia's mad despot, Ivan the Terrible. The Kremlin bravos. But Gorin is heartsick at betraying his own values, and makes indiscreet remarks about the regime. From Veria, Feodor receives new orders, and he carries them out by smashing Gorin's head against a radiator until it is a bloody pulp...
With the beginning of World War II, Stockly shifted to writing Foreign News, to which he returned after a military leave of absence in Air Force intelligence. His wartime cover stories include Alexander Novikov, Russia's air force chief, and a Nazi trinity: Heidrich, Rommel and Himmler. Of all his cover stories, says Stockly, the one he enjoyed doing most was Heinrich Himmler: "It was a real witches' brew...