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...valleys where 12 million Afghans ride their horses and camels, herd their flocks, fight their feuds and tend their bazaars. The instinctive memory of it blew like a cooling wind across preparations for Afghanistan's latest invasion from the north, the visit of those part-time nomads, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev...
When the Soviet ambassador suggested to Foreign Minister Sardar Mohammed Nairn Khan (a younger brother of the Premier) that Bulganin and Khrushchev might like to address a big public meeting or two, Nairn replied that the Afghan winter was too cold for the distinguished guests to stand in the open for long. "Oh," replied the Soviet ambassador, "our leaders are accustomed to cold...
Incident in Mandalay. Last week in Burma, Serov's nerves seemed to be getting the better of him. London Observer Correspondent Philip Deane photographed a Burmese soldier demonstrating a mine detector at Mandalay airport, just before the arrival of Khrushchev and Bulganin. A 6-ft. MVD plainclothesman rushed the Burmese soldier to try to stop the picture. The incident, recorded on TV film, made Serov blaze with anger. "Who took that lying photograph?" he demanded later. When other Western newsmen refused to tell him, he got madder. "In Russia," he said, "a man who took that picture would...
...wake of Khrushchev and Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled...
Ever since his return last month from a visit to the Soviet Union, Pearson has been calling for "a searching reexamination" of NATO policy. Soviet Leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin apparently convinced him of the Russians' determination never to allow the unification of Germany as long as West Germany stays in the alliance. Mike Pearson, whose neutralist views have led some critics to call him a "Nehru in a Homburg," has hinted that he now leans toward the idea of releasing West Germany from NATO in the hope that the Russians would then free the entire country. The West Germans...