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Brezhnev's successor in the presidency: Anastas Mikoyan, 68, who was plainly due for a rest. Active for three decades as top Soviet foreign trade specialist, the Armenian was in the hospital twice last year, needed a softer job after his recent active period as Khrushchev's troubleshooter abroad...
...gala scene in Djakarta's plush Hotel Indonesia. A couple of hundred milling guests sipped lemonade or crowded around the guest of honor, Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, flashing his toothy smile. Near by, a 28-girl choir in tight, bright sarongs of multicolored, hand-printed cotton reverently purred Djakarta's hit tune, Crush Malaysia...
...would there be if Mikoyan had his way. In Indonesia for an eleven-day good-will tour, he boasted that Moscow was supplying "very modern arms" to help Sukarno, vowed continued Soviet sympathy with "the struggle of the new emerging forces." When it came to promises of a more concrete kind, Mikoyan was a little vague. Apart from massive arms aid, at least $300 million in Soviet development aid credits has vanished without trace in Indonesia's bottomless pit of corruption, inefficiency and poverty. On his current junket, the crafty Armenian could not help seeing that since his last...
...Russians seemed indeed preoccupied. In addition to Nikita Khrushchev, wooing Arabs in Egypt, Mikhail Suslov journeyed to Paris to persuade the French that Russians are better friends than their new-found Chinese pals, while peripatetic Supersalesman Anastas Mikoyan scurried about Japan, inspecting plants and talking glibly of buying Japanese ships, pulp mills and industrial plants for the production of fertilizer and plastics on long-term credits...
...Cardinal Gushing would celebrate the Requiem Mass in Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral. France's De Gaulle would be there, along with Britain's Prince Philip and Prime Minister Douglas-Home, Greece's Queen Frederika, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, Belgium's King Baudouin, Russia's Deputy Premier Mikoyan, Ireland's President De Valera, Canada's Prime Minister Pearson, Germany's Chancellor Erhard, the Philippines' President Macapagal, and many more...