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...communications aboard the Russian passenger liner Baltika were any good at all, its top passenger, Nikita Khrushchev, and his assorted satellite satraps last week had something new to chew over. As Baltika cruised toward New York harbor, the U.S. State Department handed a coolly worded memorandum to the Soviets' U.N. delegation, advising the Russians that Khrushchev-who had invited him self to the U.S. to appear before the General Assembly-should not make any plans to leave the island of Manhattan, and should find some place to house himself as close to the U.N. headquarters as possible...
With political storm warnings flying at every threatened point, with forecasters issuing hourly revisions of his probable future course, with experts battening down and shoring up exposed positions against the expected assault, Nikita Khrushchev last week headed across the Atlantic toward New York and the U.N. General Assembly. His decision to come to New York by ship had its bright side. For ten whole days Nikita would presumably be reduced to nothing more than a disembodied presence at the other end of a radio circuit...
...insubordinate Mao Tse-tung. By assembling in New York all the world's Communist chieftains save Mao. Khrushchev underlines Peking's exclusion from the U.N. and perhaps emphasizes the isolation in which Red China would stand if it ever broke with Russia. The sight of Nikita bustling about the U.N. corridors closed to Mao might also be intended to remind Afro-Asians which Communist power can do most for them diplomatically, now that Peking and Moscow are competing around the world for support...
...Pnompenh for the dedication ceremonies. Plainly aware that only a week earlier Sihanouk had jailed 16 top Cambodian Communists for "working in liaison with foreigners," Minister Kurashov tried to play it cool. As a Cambodian army band emphasized its neutrality by alternating U.S. jazz with Russian lullabies, Kurashov brought Nikita Khrushchev's personal assurances that "the Soviet Union never interferes in the internal affairs of other nations. We are your true and trusted friend in your fight against imperialistic intrigues...
Unfortunately, Ulbricht & Co. were in too big a hurry to get out front. When Nikita Khrushchev dropped in at the Leipzig Trade Fair in the spring of 1958, a life-sized mock-up of the 68-152 was one of the main attractions. Ulbricht could contain himself no longer. Over the protests of his engineers, who insisted the plane needed significant changes in fuselage and engine design, Ulbricht ordered the first prototype 66-152 into the air. Minutes after it took off, the jetliner crashed into a hillside, killing its four crew members...