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...increasingly self-assertive, outward-looking nations within the once monolithic Communist bloc. And while Methodist Mills airily dismissed the need for such a gesture, a dramatic "independence" speech by Rumanian Boss Nicolae Ceausescu pointedly underlined the urgency behind a scheduled fence-mending mission to Bucharest by Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (see THE WORLD...
Secret Huddle. Scarcely had the speech clattered through the Kremlin telex machines when Russia's Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was airborne for a visit to Bucharest. For three days he huddled with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with...
...Brezhnev was confirmed by the Congress as the Soviet Union's No. 1 leader: as party chief, he was elected unanimously to the top post in the new Politburo. As chief of government, Premier Aleksei Kosygin was named to the Politburo's No. 2 post. Into the No. 3 spot moved Mikhail Suslov, 63, the lean Stalinist ideologue, whose position is enhanced by the fact that he holds a key post in the important party Secretariat...
Sharp Curtailment. The Congress, first to be held under the Brezhnev-Kosygin duumvirate, made it clear that the two men prefer to concentrate on domestic issues. They gave Khrushchev full raps for "amateurish" planning, stressed gadget Communism, which, with its emphasis on consumer goods, outdoes Khrushchev's goulash Communism. Among the production goals for the new five-year plan: 18.5 million refrigerators, 30 million radios and phonographs, 27 million television sets and 2,500,000 personal autos. Kosygin's message also disclosed how widely the free-market ideas of Soviet Professor Evsei Liberman (TIME cover...
...group of British students who toured Moscow in 1964 remember their interpreter, Zhenya Belov, as a dedicated Communist who lambasted them for "political ignorance." Last summer Belov showed his own political ignorance by writing Comrades Brezhnev and Kosygin, suggesting they democratize their regime. He was adjudged insane, put in an asylum and-the Soviet bosses hoped-forgotten forever...