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Politely, in the week of the Congo, the President of the U.S. congratulated the Premier of the Soviet Union on launching a "space vehicle" to Venus (see SCIENCE). Politely, Nikita Khrushchev thanked John Kennedy, and hoped that the two nations could some day explore space together. Nonetheless, the Russians touched off their newest giant skyrocket with a propaganda torch, highlighting the sad fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites...
...stifle the young African republic . . . there is not the slightest justification for considering that he has seen the light and is prepared to change his course." Zorin's target was as much the office of Secretary-General as the man who occupied it. Last October, during Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging visit to the General Assembly, the Soviet Premier had proclaimed his dislike of Hammarskjold ("We do not trust Mr. Hammarskjold and cannot trust him"), demanded that the Secretary-Generalship be replaced by a three-man executive, representing the three world blocs, the East, the West...
...After Khrushchev's attack last fall, Hammarskjold became notably more cautious in the Congo, shied away from involvement in the Laos squabble, on the ground that the Russians were waiting for just such an opportunity to bring him down...
Planes over the Sudan. But Western experts doubt that Khrushchev is prepared for really serious intervention in the Congo. If the Russians tried to move into the Congo, they would face as many difficulties as the U.N.-or Patrice Lumumba -and they know it. Even providing major aid to Gizenga would be enormously difficult. In the deep Sudan interior, the overland roads are perilous, and planes can bring in only a trickle of supplies, even if the Sudan permitted overflights (which it has so far refused to do). If the Congo ever became a theater for a clash between East...
Cold Shock. Basically, Lumumba's death was too good an opportunity for Khrushchev to miss and a chance to prove to comrades the world over that he could be as militant as the Chinese when the chance came. "Do you think he could have passed it up, and then explained to Mao that he didn't want to offend his new friend, John F. Kennedy?" demanded one Western expert...