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...took just 30 seconds for the Supreme Soviet, Russia's moot parliament, to dispose of the absent Deputy for the Moscow district of Kalinin. In two swift, silent shows of 1,400 hands, without a single dissent or abstention, the assemblage in the Kremlin ratified Nikita Khrushchev's dismissal by the party Presidium last October as First Party Secretary and Premier. But except for a change in style, the Khrushchev spirit was very much present...
Mourning Bands. The race riot was touched off by the mysterious death of Edmond Asare-Addo, 29, a second-year medical student from Ghana who was studying at Kalinin Institute, about 100 miles northwest of the capital. On the eve of his marriage to a Russian girl, the student's body was discovered near the railroad tracks of a suburban Moscow station. The Soviet police claimed that Asare-Addo, drunk, had fallen down in the 11 °-below-zero weather and frozen to death. But Ghanaians, who knew that the marriage was fiercely opposed by the girl...
Quickly swinging into action, students at Patrice Lumumba Friendship University spread the word to other Africans in Leningrad, Kalinin, and as far away as Odessa and Tashkent. The message: We march on the Kremlin. Wearing the traditional red mourning band of Ghana around their heads, the students gathered before the Ghana embassy on a street a mile from Red Square. "No trouble," shouted their leaders as the procession trooped off, but at the end of the street, there was plenty...
...course, he got 90 minutes of free, prime time on TV, and was able to meet the folks in the Kremlin's mighty marble Palace of the Congresses. Otherwise, Nikita Khrushchev's stump speech to his constituents from Moscow's Kalinin district sounded as if he had to run for dear life to get re-elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic this week...
...birthday, one for his wedding and one for his funeral. "Now," added artful Nikita, "if I were to promise you that you'll have three new suits next year, you'd say that I was drunk." To stormy applause, the old pro sat down. In Kalinin, he would probably be the people's choice even if they...