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...with the entire loan repaid within three years after the last delivery. As recently as Nixon's summit trip to Moscow in May, Soviet negotiators were insisting on interest rates only half as large. Said Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who showed American farms to Soviet Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich last fall: "The agreement does not involve subsidies to the Russians...
...which is thought in the West to have lagged 20% below plans, Khrushchev said, "It was not as bad as the previous year," but still left room for improvement. "That explains the reorganization of the Virgin Lands," he volunteered, and dropped the first word that tubby Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich had been sent to the Central Asian boondocks to take charge of Khrushchev's pet project (the Virgin Lands have suffered their third crop failure in five years). Grinned Khrushchev, "Out there Matskevich will be right on the job instead of signing circulars in Moscow." Later the Soviet boss...
Moscow's minutes, which sold out within hours, showed that after Bulganin admitted "joining" the "antiparty activities of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov," speaker after speaker rose-obviously in a coordinated assault-to assail his confession as "feeble" and "unconvincing." Said Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, a longtime Khrushchev henchman from the Ukraine: "Bulganin now pretends that he only joined the group at the last minute. This is not true. If Bulganin has in fact repented, then he must disarm himself completely and tell honestly about his subversive work and about the roots that have remained...
...Homburged, blue-suited visitor who looked like what he is: a capitalist tycoon. On hand to greet the TU-104 jet that brought Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Steep Rock Iron Mines) were crowds of children bearing flowers, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich bearing official greetings. Three years ago Eaton gave Matskevich's department a prize Shorthorn bull, which had nobly performed to improve the quality of Russia's herds...
...Vladimir Matskevich wound up his visit to the U.S. in a surplus-goods store, where he bought a down hunting vest and suede hunting jacket to take back to chilly Russia. In there exuding humanity and good will to the end, one of the Russians commented: "He's a country man. He buys the clothes for hunting...