V. M. Molotov
At age 96, Bolshevik V. M. Molotov, architect of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, has gone on to that great polit-bureau in the sky. Let us drink a toast to old Vyacheslav--a Molotov cocktail, of course.
VASSILY BUOY
Los Angeles
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