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Hastily concluding an "appropriate agreement" to send arms to Hanoi's Ho, Kosygin flew off in his official plane to Peking, where he was greeted at the airport by seven flower girls, eight antiaircraft guns, and Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. To top that, Party Boss Mao Tse-tung, who hadn't spoken to a Soviet leader since 1959, was waiting in the sprawling Congress Palace. During a 2½-hour secret session, Kosygin and Mao no doubt talked defense. The New China News Agency even published a photo of them that showed seriousness and mutual dislike...
Five-Minute Glow. There was some question about whether any official welcome would show up; at the last moment Premier Chou En-lai appeared. Kosygin stepped quickly down the ramp, shook Chou's hand, then hugged him; Chou managed a tight smile. Mumbled Kosygin: "It is always a great pleasure." The glow lasted five minutes. Then Chou departed, leaving the Russian Premier to drive unescorted and unheralded to the Ying Ping Kuan guesthouse, where copies of a recent Peking People's Daily carried three acid poems of greeting to Kosygin. A sample...
...Later Chou had Kosygin to lunch and dinner. Under the circumstances, it was unlikely that the two leaders made much progress toward healing the Sino-Soviet breach or diluting Peking's opposition to Moscow's planned world Communist conference. The Chinese announced merely that a "conversation" took place...
...Indonesia's withdrawal from the United Nations as not only "a lofty and just revolutionary move," but "the first earth-rending spring thunderbolt of 1965." Clearly the implication was that a second thunderbolt would not be far behind, and last week it came. Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai proposed the creation of a new U.N.-"a revolutionary" one presumably made up of Afro-Asians and free from "the manipulation of U.S. imperialism...
...occasion was a Peking banquet for a 44-man Indonesian delegation headed by Sukarno's Foreign Minister Subandrio. Even in making his proposal, Chou showed Peking's scorn for any form of international organization. China, he said with heavy irony, wants "rival dramas to be staged in competition with that body which calls itself the U.N. How can it be that the U.S. is allowed to stage its own drama, while...