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...months ago, the Russians began a new chapter in their history with TIME. Correspondent Israel Shenker, our Moscow bureau chief since March 1963, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow and read a formal statement charging that our cover story on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and the state of the Russian economy (Feb. 21) was "slanderous." Unless we changed our approach, he was informed, our office would be closed. In a reply to the Foreign Ministry we said, in effect, that we intended to continue reporting the Soviet Union as we saw it. Last week Shenker was called...
First-Class Lion. As Nikita Khrushchev celebrated his 70th birthday last week, the image of Lenin appeared in yet another prominent place: Nikita's chest. The Order of Lenin was pinned on him by President Leonid Brezhnev. There were other decorations. Outer Mongolia awarded Khrushchev its Order of Suhe-Bator, Czechoslovakia weighed in with the Order of the White Lion, first class, with gold chain, and top orders came from East Germany and Rumania. The congratulations almost recalled the "personality cult" that once surrounded Stalin; they salute Nikita as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy...
...interesting to learn from your cover story about the Soviet President [Feb. 21] that Leonid Brezhnev is a Ukrainian like Khrushchev. This may predispose them to feel more "European" than was the case with the preceding Red rulers, since Lenin was a Tartar, Trotsky was Jewish, and Stalin came from the Caucasus...
...said that members are being asked to write letters to Premier Khrushchev, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chairman of the Presidium, and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Ambassador to the United States. The letter-writing campaign has been undertaken because Soviet law provides that public opinion be taken into consideration in clemency appeals...
...Brezhnev, or any other Soviet leader who may come to power in the next few years, will be dealing with a situation no Soviet leader has ever faced...