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Departing Hanoi last week, Soviet Envoy Aleksandr Shelepin proclaimed that the Soviets, as a result of his week of talks with Ho & Co., will "support and assist the Vietnamese with all their might in consolidating the defense potential of North Viet Nam." Carefully left unsaid was whether the Kremlin troubleshooter had promised Hanoi significantly more arms for the war or urged an arm's-length look at the possibility of a negotiated peace. Or both...
...Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler met in the Kremlin with Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny just before a high-level Soviet group headed by Aleksandr Shelepin, the party's No. 2 man, left for Hanoi. And in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Hungarian officials, who had made it clear that they, too, wanted to join the lengthening procession of countries hopeful of mediating...
...anniversary of Egypt's little Suez war with France, Britain and Israel. After parade's end, the crowd waited expectantly to hear whether President Gamal Abdel Nasser could top his performance of a year ago, when he pounded the lectern for the benefit of visiting Soviet Bigwig Aleksandr Shelepin and told the U.S. to go "drink the sea"-the Arab equivalent of "Go jump in the lake...
...exchange was reported last week in a New York Times dispatch from Moscow. The prisoner was Aleksandr Esenin-Volpin, 41, the son of flamboyant Revolutionary Poet Sergei Esenin, who committed suicide in 1925. Himself a poet of prominence, Esenin-Volpin had been arrested as a ringleader of the short-lived demonstration in Pushkin Square that demanded a public trial for Andrei Sinyavsky, generally believed to be the pseudonymous Abram Tertz, and Yuli Daniel, who wrote under the name Nikolai Arzhak (TIME...
Most important of the shifts was the one least publicized. In brief wire service bulletins, Tass tersely announced that it had been found "expedient for Aleksandr Shelepin to concentrate his activity at the Central Committee." Shelepin, 47, was "relieved" of his posts as Deputy Premier and head of a key committee exercising vigilance over every aspect of Soviet life from the army to the arts. To many Western Kremlin watchers, the lean, strongly "positioned Shelepin seemed "the Stalin of the future." He may have looked that way to his peers in the Kremlin as well, for his removal last week...