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Walk in the Park. What makes a good Red spy? In Georgiev's case it seems to have been Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization speech to the 20th Soviet Party Congress. This so shook his ideological faith, Georgiev explained, "that I felt theoretically unstable." So unstable, said the prosecutor, that the defendant hardly had time to unpack his bags before he was in touch with a chap from the CIA. There followed a walk in Central Park, and instructions on the dos and don'ts of espionage. There was a spooky man named Anderson, whose name was really...
That old farmer, Nikita Khrushchev, has lately learned that a lot of things have changed down on the farm since he broke the Russian soil behind a mare. To explain away the fact that Russia harvests less than the U.S., though it cultivates twice as much farm land, Khrushchev insists: "Yields don't depend upon the system. It's merely a matter of the U.S.'s producing more mineral fertilizer." Fertilizer, for so long the essential ingredient of barnyard humor, has become a vital factor in the economic cold war, and Khrushchev has launched a costly crash...
...since the Trotskyite riots in the 1920s had Moscow seen anything like it. While crowds of Russians watched with amazement, more than 400 African students last week battled Red cops in the streets, inside Red Square itself, right past Nikita Khrushchev's own office window. "Moscow-A Second Alabama," said one crudely lettered sign, in Russian and in English. "Stop Killing Africans," warned another placard...
...campaign to grab adjacent territory, Peking has angered neighboring Kenya, where it has also spent heavily to woo the new nation. It may succeed at least in raising Russia's ante in Africa and Asia. At week's end, as Chou left for Algeria, Nikita Khrushchev was reportedly planning his own swing through Africa. Before visiting Cairo next spring, he may also junket to India and Nepal on Chou's back doorstep. Then it will be Nikita's turn to tell who will bury whom...
Jane's Verdict. Nikita Khrushchev has stretched his nation's resources dangerously thin. The 1964 and 1965 budgets published in Moscow last week showed sharp cutbacks in plans for such key sectors of heavy industry as steel and electric power in order to divert massive additional funds to the lagging agriculture program and the backward chemical industry. Perhaps the lack of capital was also the cause of the declining rate in Russia's air and space spectaculars. The latest edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft lists only one new Soviet plane...