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...week's end Pope John XXIII also aided the cause by issuing an encyclical (see RELIGION) that called cooperation between advanced and underdeveloped nations one of the world's greatest social needs. But the program's real push came, ironically, from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, whose continuing threats have stirred up an atmosphere of crisis that makes a strong foreign aid program a near certainty. Observed one aid advocate: "The Soviets every year seem to pull the same stuff that snaps everyone to attention and gets this bill passed...
...West. One reason was the new food shortage in East Germany, which had brought tighter rationing of potatoes and butter, new crackdowns by Red Boss Walter Ulbricht. But the overriding impulse that sent East Germans by the hundreds surging across the frontier was a cold fear inspired by Nikita Khrushchev and his threat to provoke a new Berlin crisis...
...televised address, French President Charles de Gaulle warned that the Russians were trying "to settle unilaterally the fate of Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...
...last week, at a Moscow dinner in honor of Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nikita rose to launch an attack on the U.N., declared that "even if all the countries of the world adopted a decision that did not accord with the interests of the Soviet Union and threatened its security, the Soviet Union would not recognize such a decision but would uphold its rights, relying on force. And we have the wherewithal to do this...
Ever since Sputnik I. the Russians have been ostentatiously flexing their missiles in an artful campaign to persuade the West that in the rocket age, warplanes are not worth a ruble-or a U.S. defense dollar. "Airplanes," sneered Nikita Khrushchev, "belong in museums." But last week at Moscow's Tushino airport, as the Soviet Air Force staged its first public flypast in three years, it was clear that Soviet aviation designers have been working overtime all the while. More than 100,000 spectators, including Khrushchev, squinted into the bright sunny sky as one new plane after another whooshed into...