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Improved Relations. This week, Brezhnev carries his wooing of East European leaders to Bucharest. It will be the first official visit to Rumania by the Soviet leader since he succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party boss twelve years ago. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu has long offended Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest...
...lineup of leaders at Mao's mourning. He has also impressed foreign observers with his cool, adept handling of both the recent earthquakes and the obsequies for Mao. But will he consolidate his power, as Leonid Brezhnev did in the Soviet Union after the ouster of Khrushchev? Or will he, like Georgi Malenkov after the death of Stalin, eventually be relegated to obscurity? Many observers believe that he might endure, given the apparent strength of the moderates in China today. But the first indications of Hua's future may come out of the plenum of the Tenth Party...
First there was "goulash Communism"-the term coined in the early 1960s to describe Nikita Khrushchev's insistence that Red economies satisfy consumer needs instead of concentrating only on the development of heavy industry. Now the Soviet bloc is following an even more heretical strategy that might be called credit-card Communism-the customers in this case being governments rather than individuals. Totally violating Marxist prejudices, the Soviet Union and its six economic allies in Eastern Europe* are trying to modernize their antiquated economies by borrowing heavily from their supposed class enemies, the capitalists of the West...
Died. Mikhail Menshikov, 73, congenial Soviet Ambassador to Washington from 1957 to 1962; in Moscow. Menshikov undertook to thaw out the cold war-at least on the diplomatic cocktail circuit-with his informal, urbane style. "Smiling Mike," the nickname his sociability earned him, helped arrange Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. in 1959 and the Vienna talks between President Kennedy and Khrushchev...
Silent Screams. Yet all efforts to memorialize the victims foundered on the Kremlin's unwillingness to acknowledge that Jews were particular targets of the Nazis. The postwar party chief in the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev, publicly promised to erect a monument at Babi Yar, but his plan was forestalled by Stalin's anti-Semitic drives. Even after Khrushchev himself took power in Moscow, Babi Yar remained a refuse-strewn wasteland. Poet Yevtushenko was fiercely rebuked for singling out Jews as victims of the massacre. So was Composer Dimitri Shostakovich, who made Babi Yar a theme of his 13th Symphony...