Word: khrushchevism
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Until recently, the government encouraged Soviet citizens to build their own homes because of the acute housing shortage. By 1960, 31% of all living space in Soviet cities was privately owned. But building materials were in such short supply that last year Khrushchev's new Communist Party program hinted at a reversal of the home-building policy. Nikita's Utopian blue print suggested that the imminent transition from socialism to Communism would make privately owned homes unnecessary. Another reason for the switch: the regime has been increasingly plagued by embezzling public servants who found a convenient outlet...
...hard currency, the country's Communist bosses maintain an official guide service, Albtourist, which boasts of "incomparable Adriatic beaches" (all guarded by cruising police boats) and "centuries-old ruins." Business has been a little slack for Albtourist in the other satellite countries since Albania's quarrel with Khrushchev. Albtourist has even hopefully sent its tourist folders to a small West German travel agency in Cologne. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr decided to apply as a tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest...
Even before the break with Khrushchev, internal security was the strictest in the world; since then it has become an obsession. Foreign visitors must fill out forms specifying the contents of their baggage down to the number of shirts, handkerchiefs and socks they are bringing into the country. Decent blankets are so rare that they must be listed separately under "valuables." So isolated are Albanians from the outside world that they are convinced that such restrictions are the normal practice everywhere...
...Nikita Khrushchev got a lot of free space in the Western press three weeks ago with a variation on a familiar theme-replacing Western troops in West Berlin with garrisons from smaller nations. The New York Times printed half a page of excerpts from his 2½-hour speech, and most other papers carried news stories of the proposal. But that apparently was not enough to satisfy the Soviet Premier. Last week the full 14,000 words of Khrushchev's speech appeared in two-and three-page display ads in the New York Herald Tribune, Kansas City Star, Hearst...
...only refusal came from the liberal Washington Post. President Philip Graham told the Soviet embassy that the Post would happily print the Khrushchev text in its news columns free if Pravda or Izvestia reciprocated by publishing the full text of President Kennedy's Sept. 25 speech to the United Nations, outlining the U.S. stand for realistically controlled and inspected disarmament. The Russians did not seem interested in the bargain...