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Shastri had been in Tashkent since Jan. 2 at the invitation of Soviet Premier Alexel N. Kosygin to discuss peace between India and Pakistan. Although the pact signed yesterday did not settle the main issue, possession of Pakistan, Shastri and Ayub agreed to start withdrawing troops from each others' soil and to work for peace...
...Ayub and Shastri meet in Tashkent this week under the sponsoring eye of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, that old Uzbek saying sounds overoptimistic. Kosygin invited the pair to Tashkent during the height of last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war. Since then, an uneasy, U.N.-imposed "ceasefire" has been torn almost daily by vicious, small-scale clashes, and both sides have counted more than 3,596 "violations...
...hoping for a rational, civilized tour d'horizon- and found himself face to face with a fishwifely propaganda harangue. "It seems, sir, both you and we are expecting some big news from up there tonight," began Reston vaguely enough. "What do you call 'Up there?' " snapped Kosygin. "Do you mean from God?" Reston only meant space shots-the U.S. Gemini 7 and the Soviet Luna 8-but the mood had been struck. Despite Reston's attempts at ingratiation ("I agree . . ." "I was certainly not suggesting . . ."), Kosygin laid out a rehash of anti-American propaganda that grew...
Finishing Him Off. Without raising his voice, Kosygin attacked NATO, ("Why are you arming West Germany and setting her against us?"); colonialist imperialism ("In countries which have not yet freed themselves from the imperialist yoke there is colonial slavery, worse perhaps than under the Roman Empire"); and the notion of a Johnson-Kosygin meeting ("Not feasible" until after the war in Viet Nam is resolved). On Viet Nam itself, Kosygin was amazingly ill-informed ("You have more than 100,000 troops there, and you are sending another...
...Finally, Kosygin turned to his translator and said, "I really want to finish him off." Reston asked for permission to publish the interview. Kosygin agreed -but insisted on having a day to go over the transcript, "to avoid misunderstanding." The Soviet Premier obviously saw the interview as a prestigious piece of propaganda. That it may have been in Russia and, perhaps, in North Viet Nam. But elsewhere it showed Kosygin to be unsure of his facts, easily provoked into unreasoned anger and hardly master of himself-let alone a great nation...