News of the Day No 51

Vice-President of Brazil J. Golart is in Moscow on an official visit, at a reception at the President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. Meeting of Soviet-Cuban friendship in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Speakers: Ernesto Guevara, academician I.P. Gerasimov, worker V. Chugunov. AI Mikoyan is present. Newsreel: Republic of the Congo. The people welcomed the head of government of the Congo, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Patrice Lumumba and his supporters, captured by participants in a military coup led by Mobutu, are tied up in a car. Moscow city. Rally in defense of Patrice Lumumba at the Ordzhonikidze plant, at the Krasnaya Roza plant. The workers of enterprises are speaking. A meeting of construction workers at the Stalingrad hydroelectric power station on the occasion of the commissioning of the last 21st turbine. The man is at the control panel. A part of the turbine is rotating. The workers are applauding. Start-up of a new blast furnace "Krivorozhskaya-Komsomolskaya" at the Krivoy Rog metallurgical plant (Ukraine). Blast furnace loading. Remote Control. Cast iron flows through the gutter. The workers are applauding. Opening of the Soviet section of the road under construction from Aktogay station in Kazakhstan to the border with the People's Republic of China. A train is going by. Workshop of the Moscow weaving factory "Victory of Labor". The weavers work according to a new method, serving three machines of four. Tatiana Yakovlevna Pereshivko, a hero of Socialist Labor, a notable pig farm of the Pobeditel state farm in the Omsk Region, works on a pig farm, using mechanization to take care of animals. Uzbekistan. Tashkent city. Exhibition of painting, graphics, sculpture of arts and crafts. Spectators in the halls of the exhibition. Moscow city. Variety show at the Sports Palace. Speakers: L. Mirov and M. Novitsky; the brothers Gusakov are dancing. The girls are performing a waltz.

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