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...simple, eloquent language, Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week explained on television why Americans are fighting and dying in Asia for the third time in a generation. Though Rusk's remarks had been taped nearly a month earlier, they effectively rebutted Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's charge that the U.S. is supporting the "oppressors" in Viet...
News from Up There. The Kremlin shake-up left Russia's two top leaders untouched. If anything, Party Boss Brezhnev was strengthened by Podgorny's isolation, while Premier Aleksei Kosygin benefited by Shelepin's removal from the government side of the Kremlin power structure. Significantly, the budget that was passed by acclamation before the personnel changes were announced once again put stress on consumer goods and light industrial development-two aims in which Brezhnev and Kosygin concur. With much snarling about warlike U.S. imperialism, they also raised the Soviet defense budget by 5%. But the hike...
...that most closely affect the Soviet citizen's welfare. Definitive figures will become available only when the central statistical administration publishes its 1965 report next January, but it is possible to make the following estimates on the basis of the official nine-month report and recent speeches by Kosygin, Polyansky and I. T. Novikov. Within the overall volume of industrial production, the targets for producer goods will easily be overfulfilled, while those for consumer goods (one quarter of the total) will not be met. The gross agricultural product will have grown by 7% instead of the 70% envisaged...
...Alexander's prolonged life captured the imagination of many obscure historians-and even that of Novelist Leo Tolstoy. In 1905, shortly before his death, Tolstoy began a fictional account titled Posthumous Notes on Fyodor Kuzmich. Another investigator has had better luck with the Soviet regime of Brezhnev and Kosygin. Writing in Izvestia's Sunday magazine last week, Journalist Lev Lyubimov revealed that the Russian government is pondering a plan to resolve the Alexandrian mystery once and for all. Lyubimov would like to open both Kuzmich's tomb in Tomsk and Alexander's in Leningrad...
...Thomson told Khrushchev, "I am a capitalist and have come up, and you're a Communist and have come up." Thomson takes his self-appointed role as a broker between East and West so seriously that he went to Moscow again last September to have a chat with Kosygin...