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...Communists last week met the quest for relaxation by increasing their prices for it. In a 7,000-word article in Foreign Affairs, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev denned peaceful coexistence as meaning Western abandonment of West Berlin on Russian terms, and acceptance of the Communist conquest of the captive nations of Eastern Europe. Red China stirred up ferment on the borders of India. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh upgraded his years-long guerrilla bites at Laos (pop. 2,000,000) into an artillerysupported invasion (see FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations...
...before dinner at No. 10 Downing Street, sat down before British TV cameras for a 20-minute chat on a Britain-wide and Europe-wide hookup. Estimated audience: 20 million-plus. Macmillan, calling his friend of 17 years "Mr. President," congratulated him on his plan to exchange visits with Nikita Khrushchev-"sound contribution to peace." The President, calling the Prime Minister "Prime Minister" and "Harold," said that "Anglo-American relations have never been stronger and better than they...
This week, deeply gratified by the progress of his mission and refreshed by the interlude in Scotland, the President headed back to Washington, with only a scant week remaining before the arrival of Nikita Khrushchev...
...week long, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov shuttled back and forth between his embassy on Washington's 16th Street and conferences at the State Department over Nikita Khrushchev's visit. A major general and a colonel of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, the Kremlin's secret police, gumshoed quietly across the country, turning up in such unlikely places as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa to check security angles at airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed...
Cameras to Corn. By week's end, detailed plans were well along for Nikita Khrushchev's arrival in the nation's capital. At 10 a m. next Tuesday, when he alights from the TU-114 propjet plane at Andrews Air Force Base. 15 miles southeast of Washington, the Soviet Premier will be welcomed to U.S. soil by President Dwight Eisenhower and other Government and military leaders. Metropolitan police. Secret Service and State Department security officers will line his route from the airport to Blair House, his official guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...