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Russia remains, of course, the chief target on China's periphery. The Chinese daily heap abuse on the Russians, and Moscow reported last week that hundreds of chanting Chinese demonstrators had tried to cross the Russian border at Khabarovsk in Siberia ear lier this year, calling on the Soviet guards to disobey their officers as men who had "sold themselves to American imperialism...
Visiting the Far Eastern industrial city of Khabarovsk to present the Order of Lenin to the territory for its economic achievements, he used the occasion to answer the Red Chinese, who claim that huge areas of Russia's eastern provinces, including Khabarovsk, were unjustly seized by the Czars from China in the 19th century and now should be returned to the rightful owner. Not a chance, was Podgorny's defiant reply. He pledged the full support of the Soviet military to defend the area and called on workers and farmers to cooperate with the armed forces "to guard...
...Ivan Malyshev, deputy chief of the Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
When the attachés reached Khabarovsk, Russian security police broke into their hotel rooms, held them prisoner for six hours, finally allowed them to proceed on their way to Tokyo-after confiscating what Moscow claimed were more than 900 photographs and 26 notebooks packed with "intelligence data on railway stations, bridges, tunnels, radar installations, airfields, locations of military detachments and other objectives of defense significance...
Coincidence. Washington and London squirmed but kept silent. Scarcely anyone noticed the remarkable coincidence of dates between the police action at Khabarovsk and the opening-and mysterious dismissal-of the New York trial of Soviet Spies Aleksandr Sokolov and "Joy Ann Baltch" (see THE LAW). There were many other theories as to what had happened: local police had been overzealous; Moscow had deliberately trapped the diplomats; the Russians had found a new way to destroy effective agents-publicity and ridicule...