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...committee prepared to reconvene in Geneva's Palais des Nations after a ten-month recess, Harriman by an odd coincidence was just finishing up another quiet week in Moscow-a "vacation," he called it, in which he just happened to meet twice with Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin for some five hours of talks...
Adzhubei lost his job along with Khrushchev, but the trend to more flexibility in the press was not reversed. Today's Russian bosses, Brezhnev and Kosygin, play down the cult of personality (though they do not provide as lively copy as did Khrushchev). While Stalin's name used to appear in boldface and was given prominent display in most news stories, the present leaders are apparently content to have their names occasionally omitted from copy-which does not mean they are about to be demoted or disappear. Since news coverage is no longer a sure...
...addition to the SAMs, the Russians have provided a lot of verbal bluster, but total Russian aid to North Viet Nam has been only $365 million (mostly in food-processing plants, electric-power development, mining and chemical equipment). Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Hanoi last February was aimed at re-establishing Russian influence in Southeast Asia, but with the intensification of the war, Russia has lost much of its enthusiasm. Peking is still the big spender, having provided $650 million in economic aid. Though Ho at first responded to the Chinese largesse by mimicking Mao with Orwellian...
...week, was about as far as the scheme would go. When Communist China heard of the Briton's plan to mediate the war in Viet Nam, Peking declared Wilson was a "nitwit." Then North Viet Nam dismissed the notion as a U.S.-inspired "swindle." Finally, Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin slammed the door on the Commonwealth mission. "The Soviet government," said he, "has not been authorized by anyone to conduct talks on a settlement in Viet...
...want is to make Soviet history respectable by recognizing that even the best of Communists can make mistakes. As one Soviet historian puts it: "We must write in such a way that we need not burn with shame in ten years' time." In this spirit, Brezhnev and Kosygin have ordered both the party's history and the official six-volume history of World War II to be rewritten and made "more objective...