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...wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master." "Yes, yes," replied Mikoyan, with graveyard humor, "but my dear Lavrenty Pavlovich, in my kitchen you don't find a single damn piece of human meat...
Died. Avraamy Pavlovich Zavenyagin, 55, billiard-bald chief (since 1955) of Russia's euphemistically titled Ministry of Medium Machine Building (i.e., atomic-energy commission ), wartime overseer of much of the slave-labor force; of a coronary thrombosis; in Moscow...
Thompson, critically hurt, was taken to a hospital, where surgeons worked for hours to save him. While Communist groups shrilly demanded that "political prisoners" be safeguarded against "murderous attacks" in U.S. jails, embarrassed federal men could not even establish that Pavlovich knew who Thompson was when he hit him. Pavlovich was placed in solitary to await U.S. trial, and the ship for Yugoslavia sailed without...
Guards who seized the man with the pipe discovered that he had Communist connections of another kind in his record. Alexander Pavlovich, 32, a Yugoslav seaman, had jumped ship in Portland, Ore. in 1951 in a desperate effort to remain in the U.S. Picked up for deportation by immigration authorities, he had unsuccessfully pleaded that sure death faced him in Yugoslavia as an opponent of Marshal Tito's Communist regime. His plea for sanctuary was refused for lack of supporting evidence. In custody, he had tried drastic measures, including slashing his wrists with a razor, to prolong his stay...
Grand Guignol. Joseph Stalin had no friends, but there were always sycophants around him, and the longest-lived of all of them was Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. Like Stalin, Beria was born in the Transcaucasian state of Georgia. The record says that he came of a poor peasant family in the Sukhum region. At 18, he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic (Bolshevik) Party. He worked underground, was jailed by the post-Czarist government of Azerbaijan, released on the plea of Russian Ambassador Kirov, after which he joined the Cheka (secret police) and took an active part in overthrowing...