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Official Moscow noisily protested the U.S. bombings, and its anger almost certainly came in part because Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin happened to be visiting Hanoi at the time (see THE WORLD). Peking was even shriller. The Chinese warned that they "absolutely will not stand idly by" and that "we are waiting for you in battle array." After a close reading of the Communist complaints, Washington experts concluded that what Russia and China said did not threaten drastic action. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence sources noted no unusual signs of activity, either in Hanoi...
When U.S. jets began hitting North Viet Nam last week, the most surprised Communist of all was probably Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There he sat in Hanoi, exchanging pleasantries with North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and chatting desultorily about possible Soviet military aid. Then-bang!-bombs were falling only 250 miles away. Aleksei was on the spot, and his position brought into sharp focus the whole question of Communist-bloc relations...
Could Moscow possibly back away from the Khrushchevian line of "peaceful coexistence" and espouse the militant "permanent war" cause of Peking? Could any Russian really be tempted to join an Asian fight-particularly when his Asian rival was encroaching on his own borders? Kosygin was in an embarrassing situation, and he had to salvage what he could. Skidding along a slippery slope but determined to keep the Soviet Union from plunging over the precipice, the Soviet leader slid stolidly forth...
...first acts of Premier Kosygin's new leadership was to extend the experiments. Kosygin announced that in gradual stages the new system would be spread throughout the whole of the consumer-goods industry. Last month the first 400 clothing and shoe firms scattered across Russia were authorized for the changeover-together, significantly, with 78 of their raw-material suppliers, who also had to be freed from the restrictions of the planners if the Kremlin really meant business in the reforms. Kosygin went even farther, asserting that eventually the reforms would be extended to all of Soviet industry...
McNamaraish. Now, at the top of all this, stands Premier Aleksei Kosygin, a trained economist, widely and well-traveled in Western economies...