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Only till Midnight. Ironically, Communism's grudging Christmas present to West Berlin seems to have originated in the toy factory of Nikita Khrushchev, who resembles Santa Claus only in shape. Chilled by the reception East Germans gave him last summer at the Wall, and aware that the spirit of détente had not yet thawed the frozen pivotal point in East-West relations, Khrushchev talked East German Boss Walter Ulbricht into opening negotiations for the Christmas visits...
...since the Trotskyite riots in the 1920s had Moscow seen anything like it. While crowds of Russians watched with amazement, more than 400 African students last week battled Red cops in the streets, inside Red Square itself, right past Nikita Khrushchev's own office window. "Moscow-A Second Alabama," said one crudely lettered sign, in Russian and in English. "Stop Killing Africans," warned another placard...
...Natural." Once again police gave way. The horde raced across Red Square, up an incline not far from Nikita's window (he was out inspecting an economics exhibition), past Lenin's granite mausoleum, and on toward the historic Spassky Gate that leads to the inner Kremlin grounds. At that moment the huge iron gates clanged shut. Using sound trucks, the police pleaded with the students to disperse, but for two more hours they argued and jostled with police. Ogling the demonstration were thousands of Russians, who watched from the street and from the windows...
...arms for its campaign to grab adjacent territory, Peking has angered neighboring Kenya, where it has also spent heavily to woo the new nation. It may succeed at least in raising Russia's ante in Africa and Asia. At week's end, as Chou left for Algeria, Nikita Khrushchev was reportedly planning his own swing through Africa. Before visiting Cairo next spring, he may also junket to India and Nepal on Chou's back doorstep. Then it will be Nikita's turn to tell who will bury whom...
Jane's Verdict. Nikita Khrushchev has stretched his nation's resources dangerously thin. The 1964 and 1965 budgets published in Moscow last week showed sharp cutbacks in plans for such key sectors of heavy industry as steel and electric power in order to divert massive additional funds to the lagging agriculture program and the backward chemical industry. Perhaps the lack of capital was also the cause of the declining rate in Russia's air and space spectaculars. The latest edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft lists only one new Soviet plane...