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Friendship & Pride. Kim saw his chance with the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev. Peking's resources were too thinly spread for Kim to count on Chinese help, but Russia's new leaders wanted to revive friendships in Asia that Khrushchev had ended. Pyongyang publications soon began soft-pedaling attacks on Moscow's "revisionism," and when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Kim last February, the stage was set for rapprochement. Soviet aid-cut off in 1963 at the height of North Korea's polemics-was resumed. Under a military assistance pact signed last May, Russia will probably supply...
...illustrateds in 1955, the number has dwindled to five, and one of these is shaky. Revue sold out to Quick last month after losing 26.5% of its advertising in the first half of 1965. Last March a badly slipping Revue published what purported to be a sensational interview with Nikita Khrushchev in retirement, but the interview was judged to be a phony. Last June, upon learning that Der Stern was about to run some striking photos of a developing embryo taken by Swedish Photographer Lennart Nilsson (that also ran in LIFE), Revue faked an embryo sequence...
...Joys of Retirement, by Nikita Khrushchev
...from the floodlights, has long been politically concerned. As president of the Screen Actors Guild in the late '40s, he helped block a Communist attempt to take over Hollywood's trade unions. In 1959, when 20th Century-Fox laid on a feast for the visiting Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Reagan refused to attend...
First to be rehabilitated was Joe Stalin himself, whom Nikita had savagely pulled down in the official myth from demigod to scapegoat-devil. Two months ago, Kremlin spokesmen raised Moscow eyebrows by giving Stalin his due for helping Russia stem the Nazi tide. Next victim to be reprieved from obscurity was Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who showed up, replete with honors and ribbons, for last month's V-E-day celebrations in Red Square. Finally, after a decade in the doghouse, the wartime chief and "father" of the Soviet navy, Admiral Nikolai G. Kuznetsov, surfaced with the publication of excerpts...