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...three days last week Russia's all-powerful Central Committee met be hind closed doors, giving the Kremlinologists in every Western chancellery another round in their perennial guessing game. When Izvestia delayed publication for some hours, an event that had not happened since the committee ousted Nikita Khrushchev last October, the mounting speculation even shook stock prices in Wall Street...
...Nikita must have sensed the irony in the fact that the Kremlin chose last week as the time to trot him out for his first public appearance since his ouster. Western newsmen were tipped off in advance that Nikita would be available for all to see at a Moscow polling place not a mile from the Kremlin. Sure enough, up wheeled a chauffeured car, and out hopped the familiar figure-not quite as pudgy, not quite as ebullient-but undeniably Nikita Khrushchev. Eager Soviet citizens and reporters swarmed around him, anxious to know how he felt. "I feel just like...
...since Khrushchev's lieutenants had deposed him, and this glimpse of him quite naturally raised a lot of questions. How was he faring? Where was he going? What had he been doing lately? Did his reappearance in public signal a possible return to some kind of office? Nikita himself would not or-more likely-could not answer. To requests for an interview, he snapped: "Not now, some time." Still, most of the answers were plain...
...might, but did the Kremlin? Khrushchev's freedom is clearly no more than nominal. Touched as he was by the crowd's interest, Nikita could not talk freely. Obviously, he is on a leash, being paraded at the Kremlin's will and for its own purposes. Right now at least, those seem to be merely to reassure indignant European Communists-and the world at large-that Nikita is alive, healthy, and not being treated too badly...
Political leaders of the U.S.S.R. appeared on TV applauding the flight. But there was none of the gay banter of one of Nikita Khrushchev's conversations with orbiting cosmonauts. Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev picked up a white telephone and did his leaden best. "We applaud you," he said to the Voskhod II. "We await you in Moscow." Congratulatory messages arrived from all over the world. The Pope and President Johnson both offered applause...