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...turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
...Nikita Khrushchev's boasts of overtaking the West by 1970, an extensive report released by the Central Intelligence Agency last week argues that the Russians are actually falling far behind. In 1962 and 1963, according to the agency's analysis, the Russian economy grew at a rate of less than 2.5% annually, while the U.S. growth rate averaged 5.5% and is expected to expand at that level in 1964 as well. Even if the Russians doubled their gross national product (1962 level: $260 billion) in the next decade, a feat that most experts consider impossible, Soviet output...
Perhaps it was the cheerful afterglow of New Year's Eve, but suddenly last week everybody was talking about peace. No sooner did President Johnson, on his Texas ranch, pledge the U.S. to wage "an unrelenting peace offensive" (see THE NATION) than Nikita Khrushchev chimed in from Moscow with a similar idea...
Glaring Omission. In sheer heft, Khrushchev's proposal easily outweighed Johnson's. Addressed to every nation in the world that has diplomatic relations with Moscow, Nikita's message rambled on for 20 pages about a four-point plan for an international treaty renouncing the use of force to settle territorial disputes. Since the letter amounted to little more than what the United Nations Charter already included and contained a fistful of jokers in addition (limiting the West's ability to defend Berlin, surrendering Formosa to Red China), U.S. officials showed considerable restraint when they merely characterized...
...with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...