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Show Sever, years ago the yn vacation dreamland U of most Americans was France. Today France has fallen to fifth place, "Hctesses Internationales" your service. These at super-hostess- behind Switzerland, Ireland, England, and Italy. The romantic image of a Paris vacation has faded before Charles de Gaulle's unfriendly visage and the range of sky-hi- By dialing a phone number upon your arrival in Paris, you can have a hostess from gh French prices. In an effort to regain will es personally guide a visitor through Paris, help him shop, escort him to nightclubs, point out the memorable little sites for as as $11 a day. The all speak at least girls two languages, are guaranteed to be attractive and tourist dollar, the pleasant. Their Paris is is girls. to take you from there. the..fast-fadin- G.S. g 553-55-7- French Tourist Bureau is adopting a more friendly face. Its newest gimmick number in Just 2. say, "I am an American, and I want a friend in Paris." The girls promise THE ATTRACTIVE FOUNDERS OF HOTESSES INTERNATIONALES: THE COUNTESS CLAUDE DE (LEFT) AND HER COUSIN, COUNTESS MARTHE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. CLERMONT-TONNERR- Minued by permitting sm neo-Nazi- it to exist, but is also using the services of former Hitler Nazis to develop biochemical warfare. The Soviets are convinced that not Americans still pose the greatest threat to world peace. While the average- Russian Germans - citizen is now enjoying more consumer comforts than he did 15 or 20 years ago, the Soviet intellectual has been plunged into a new repression which is not too different from Stalin's reign of terror. MosThinking citizens in Leningrad, Kiev are cow, finding it difficult and dangerous to express opinions that are in any way unorthodox or critical of the government. The composers' congress,' held in Moscow recently, was dom- inated by the most threaten- ing, dogmatic list of "Orders to the People's , Artists" issued in a long time. And for every Russian writer sentenced to years of hard labor in a show trial, scores of relatively unknown, unpublished dissidents lose their jobs and are banished from their home cities as "parasites on the state." as 'THIRD EADS Terror it existed under Stalin may not be evident in Moscow's Alex- androvsky Garden where friendly basis, arrange the meeting with elaborate precaution. Telephones, hotel rooms, dormitories, tables in restaurants, even seats in the crowded Moscow or Leningrad subway are all said to have "third ears." While walking along a Leningrad street late at night, convinced that his words could not be overheard, a young lawyer said: "Compared to the way it is today in Russia, the Khrushchev years were like a holiday of thought and opinion. What I fear is that our people will forget prisoners political leased Novotnys overthrow. The article of Soviet Stalinists that that Stalin invoked to exile millions to Siberia law carried a serious sion of would have been to unleash the peoples anger against Stalin's accomplices in the terror which took 20-ye- ed long-sup-press- ar the lives of an estimated 12-- million Russians. 15 of Khrushchev's most controversial moves was to sanction the publication of .One Evgeny Yevtushenko Stalins Heirs, s poem, an impas- sioned reminder that many of Russia's leaders were the privileged children of the Stalinist purges. Almost Soviet them all incumbent politicians, men who now the senior among occupy those good years as completely as the government Kosygin and the other suffer nightmares thinking henchmen during the Stalin purges. These men no doubt re- after President Khrushchev' s downfall was the fear among the old threat to themselves. And they were right to be afraid. The logical exten- camps form- ing a "club" such as the one formed last year in Czechoslovakia by former factor that led to the Kremlin, rose to the top of the Communist Party by acting as informers and has erased them." Why have Brezhnev and Stalinist labor led The ed he must about the survivors of mestic policies? Why have "hard-liner- s" the taken over in the Kremlin? so-cal- schoolchildren sleigh and ski on the embankments of the Kremlin's northwest wall, but there is an undercurrent of fear in 'the behavior of any Russian daring enough to befriend an American. For a Russian to meet with an American on a purely snow-pack- Soviet leaders "erased" the "good years" of Khrushchev's liberalized do- - is now defunct. But it has been replaced by a new article that outlaws works or actions considered "to libel the Soviet state." SIAllirS DURST utler-- s ghost stalks the memories of the Russian people in their fear Germany, so still and hatred of Stalin's ghost alive in his former colleagues who rule Russia today stalks the Kremlin. Russia's younger generation is resigned to living with that ghost at least for another decade. "We are all Stalin's heirs in a way," says college student from a Belo-rUoS- ia, "because his heirs include his victims as well as his beneficiaries. Until his beneficiaries die. there will be no such thing as and not Russia in will things better." get really 5 |