Word: kosygin
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Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin has apparently spent most of his time with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson discussing the chances for peace in Vietnam. He must realize, along with most of the Red leaders in Eastern Europe, that as long as Communist China is preoccupied with its cultural revolution, the burden of supporting North Vietnam with arms and materiel will fall increasingly on the European bloc of Communism...
...Kosygin, who has spent most of his career as an economic planner and administrator, is particularly attuned to the rising consumer demands in his country, and in the countries Eastern Europe. He probably feels that the mounting expense of aiding the anti-American forces is not justified by the immediate results. More important, it occupies a significant portion of the Soviet budget which he no doubt thinks could be better spent on domestic priorities...
...most significant statement Kosygin has made in London is that, as many commentators and diplomats have suggested recently, if American bombing of the North Stops, peace talks could get under way. That statement would seem to imply that some of the preconditions Hanoi had previously set for talks have been discarded. Recent reports from the North itself indicate that Hanoi's four-point formula no longer has to be accepted in its entirety before Ho enters talks. One of the four points-that the future affairs of South Vietnam must be settled according to the program of the National Liberation...
...Square, the Russian embassy has been surrounded day and night by firebrand-tossing, loudspeaker-keening Chinese. It was, said Tass, like a nonstop "witches' sabbath" of "violent abuse and bloodthirsty calls for revenge on the Soviet people." Dancing around a bonfire, the demonstrators stuck effigies of Brezhnev and Kosygin to crosses and set them afire, railed at the Soviet embassy staff cowering inside as "filthy swine, hyenas, rascals and scoundrels." The nearly 100 Chinese employees of the embassy walked off the job and joined the demonstrators, demanding by name the execution of their former employers...
...leadership is conducting a country-wide indoctrination program to make sure that every Soviet serviceman and citizen understands that the enemy lies at his door to the East. Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev lectured party leaders in Moscow, Donetsk and Gorky; President Nikolai Podgorny hit Kazan and Sverdlovsk. Premier Aleksei Kosygin briefed the Pacific Fleet last month, and dropped in to give his blessing to schoolchildren taking special anti-China courses recommended "as a model" for all Russia. The Russian chief of staff and a top missile commander toured Eastern Siberia, and Deputy Premier Dmitry