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...casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly 1,000 collected outside the school to call "Good day!" and "Long life!" Why such a crowd? reporters asked. "You know," he explained, as he walked back to his modest apartment two blocks away, "I worked in Moscow a long time...
...included the fact that 1) Jackie Kennedy sent a letter expressing hope for freedom from nuclear terror to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev after the assassination, 2) John Kennedy was planning, after being elected to a second term, to sack Dean Rusk, appoint Defense Chief Robert S. McNamara the new Secretary of State, and move Robert Kennedy, at his own request, from his post as Attorney General to Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, 3) J.F.K. was taking French lessons so that he could negotiate directly with President Charles de Gaulle, 4) Kennedy's Bible, which was used to administer...
Died. Bela Fabian, 77, Hungarian patriot, a leader of Budapest's Jewish community and prewar member of Parliament who survived Auschwitz and then emigrated in 1948 to the U.S., where he spent his years staging bitter protests against the Communists, particularly during the 1956 Hungarian uprising and during Nikita Khrushchev's 1960 U.S. visit, when he led 2,000 marchers with placards reading: "Murderers belong in Sing Sing"; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...Premier Kosygin was flying to a cool reception in Turkey, all the adulation at home seemed to be going to his comrade, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Ever since they toppled Nikita Khrushchev from power two years ago, Soviet leaders have rhapsodized about the virtues of "collective leadership" and ranted against Nikita's "cult of personality." Last week on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Brezhnev was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. In a rare event, his leonine likeness stared enigmatically from Pravda and special editions of the other Moscow newspapers. Was Brezhnev actually fostering his own little...
...throat polyp came out in Vietnamese as "a boil in the side of the throat"), but the Voice, particularly in Communist countries, often scoops the local radio and press. In 1964, its Russian broadcasts beat the state radio by 1½ hours with news of the fall of Nikita Khrushchev; this year it carried the most complete accounts of the trials of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam still try to jam VOA transmissions, but all the Communist countries of Europe except Bulgaria have quit jamming...