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...CRIMSON'S dedication to total impartiality between truth and error is indeed impressive. In your July 14th issue, you ran a reasonably detailed and accurate description of my AID paper on "Getting Ready For Political Competition In South Vietnam." In your July 24th issue. you ran a marvelously distorted, frequently inaccurate, and somewhat murky editorial column about the same paper...
According to party statutes, no more than four years are supposed to elapse between congresses of the Communist Party. The 23rd Party Congress was held in March 1966, but nobody was surprised that the 24th did not meet on time, for last March the whole country was getting ready for the numbing celebrations of Lenin's centennial. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev kept assuring people that the congress would be convened this year. Last week, however, Brezhnev summoned the Central Committee for its second plenary session in a fortnight to announce that the 24th Party Congress would not meet until...
...Planners and politicians have been unable to agree on the basic outlines of the 1971-75 Five-Year Plan, which is to be introduced at the 24th Congress. Accordingly, they have demanded more time to resolve disputes about the allocation of scarce resources among the many claimants in industry, agriculture, science and the military. Particularly difficult, according to Moscow observers, are decisions on allocating resources to scientific research and consumer goods...
...week, along with President Nikolai Podgorny, he was unanimously re-elected by the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet. Nonetheless, at 66 Kosygin has neither the robust health nor the untempered power hunger of some of his colleagues, and some Western experts believe he would like to step down at the 24th Congress...
Though Brezhnev seems to have taken a firm hold on his country's economy, long Kosygin's sphere, his precise course of action may not become readily discernible until the 24th Party Congress convenes, probably in November. At that time, the next Five-Year Plan will be unveiled. An official of the State Planning Commission has indicated that the plan will probably call for an annual growth rate of 7% to 8%, place heavier emphasis on consumer production, seek some outside capital investment a la Ford and urge the rapid development of natural resources in Siberia...