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...Camp David last September, Nikita Khrushchev's complaints to President Eisenhower about restrictions on U.S.Soviet trade drew a polite but pointed reminder that the U.S. might do more business if the Kremlin paid its bills. On the U.S. Treasury books since 1945: Soviet debt for lend-lease goods usable in peacetime, originally set at $2.6 billion but later reduced to $800 million (of total wartime U.S. aid worth $10.8 billion). Last Soviet offer, made by hard-haggling Stalin in 1951: $300 million. Asked if he wished to reopen negotiations, Khrushchev beamed: "Of course, we'd be glad...
...There can be little doubt," he went on last week, "that the Soviets are producing ballistic missiles at the high rate indicated repeatedly by Premier Khrushchev [250 ICBMs per year out of one factory]. It is, therefore, conceivable that within about two years they will have a sufficient stockpile to permit a massive missile attack on the U.S. . . . We will not have in full operation warning systems which will give SAC enough warning time to get the alert force airborne before it can be destroyed on the ground...
...peace and friendship." What had changed Peking's mind? In the past year Communist China's once great prestige in India, Burma and Indonesia has fallen, largely as a result of the ugly adventures in Tibet and Peking's quarrels with India. Since Nikita Khrushchev, still in his Camp David mood, is about to visit not only India and Indonesia but also Burma, Peking apparently felt in need of patching up at least one "friendship." As for Ne Win, the last mission of his reform government now accomplished, he is free to keep his promise to turn...
...natural gas of Palembang's oilfields for making fertilizer for Indonesia's rice terraces, 2) an electric power plant for East Java. The loans, largest to be granted by the bank to Indonesia in ten years, were announced just five weeks before Soviet Premier Khrushchev's scheduled good-will visit to Djakarta. Flashing his brightest smile, President Sukarno assured housewives on a Djakarta street corner that the U.S. loans, and Soviet and Red Chinese pledges of "unlimited credit," were "proof of Indonesia's increasing solvency...
Noted for its science shows, the station is just as active in other fields: Japanese art, political debates, classical concerts and live jazz. It has the only full local news-analysis program of any San Francisco TV station; last summer it trained a sharp-eyed camera on Visitor Nikita Khrushchev. For 5,500 subscribers, the price ($10 minimum) is cheap. On KQED, the viewer can learn anything from how to bid in bridge to foreign cultural habits. And in the works are new riches: a series on photography by Old Pro Ansel Adams, another on the roots of Communism...