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...Yaroslavl. A journalist and lawyer, Vishniak helped draw up the electoral laws for the Constituent Assembly, was elected its secretary. The author of some two dozen books on Russian affairs, he was the senior member of TIME'S Russian desk for many years, now advises it from semi-retirement...
...semi-annual report on U.S. foreign-currency operations, Coombs explained that the largest factor in sterling's recovery has been "the underlying improvement" in Britain's pound-threatening balance-of-payments deficit. Though the British ran a deficit for the whole of 1966 (probably between $420 million and $560 million), rising exports produced a balance-of-payments surplus during the final three months of the year. This year, says a forecast from London's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Britain should show an impressive $490 million surplus, its first since...
...other semi-final game, ninth ranked B.C. (20-2) meets St. John's (22-3). St. John's upset B.C. last year in the first round of the NIT, so the Eagles will be gunning for revenge...
...arbitrariness of the Maost leadership has been brought into sharper focus during the purge that is being carried out at present (mid-1966). Purges or "semi-purges" in the past were carried out with a kind of surgical precision. Quite often the victims could be linked with policy disagreements (such as Ch'en Yun, the former top economic specialist who was removed from power). Previously, the language used to describe the "guilty" was stern, but usually stopped short of hysterical. Furthermore, from the point of view of the victims, there was in most cases the possibility of "rehabilitation"--not Soviet...
Seven goals by the Ferguson brothers paced Cornell to a 12-2 win over B.C. Boston University won the other semi-final over St. Lawrence by a score...