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Part of the Soviet economy's increased strain stems from the confusion caused by Nikita Khrushchev's decision to decentralize the management of Soviet industry (TIME, April 15). In addition, the troubles in Poland and Hungary not only deprived Russia of valuable imports, e.g., Polish coal, but also obliged Russia to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the satellites to quiet their unrest...
...basic difficulty is that Nikita Khrushchev, a man reaching the top at 63 (Stalin was 47 when he got there), is trying to do too much all at once. With an industrial production roughly one-third that of the U.S., Russia is 1) maintaining the world's largest armed forces, 2) trying to overtake the U.S. in production of meat, milk and butter, 3) sending aid not only to the satellites and Red China but also to susceptible Middle East nations, 4) facing an increasingly vociferous domestic demand for better housing and more consumer goods...
Describing the Russian people as "wonderful," Globetrotter Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, climaxed her first trip to the Soviet Union by interviewing Communist Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev for almost three hours at his summer villa on the Black Sea near Yalta. "War is unthinkable," Khrushchev told Mrs. Roosevelt, who called the hard-drinking, explosive Soviet leader "a cordial, simple, outspoken man who got angry at certain spots and emphasized the things he believed." But when Khrushchev accused her of hating Communists, Mrs. Roosevelt quickly replied: "Oh no, I don't. I don't hate anybody. I don't believe...
...ambiguity towards Russia stems from mingled hopes and fears about the Jews in Russia. Even though Moscow has elected to plunge heavily on the Arab side in the Middle East, it is still not averse to playing a double game between Arabs and Jews. Just before the Youth Festival, Nikita Khrushchev told a Western visitor: "If the Israelis agreed to follow a policy of neutralism, and if the U.S. called off the cold war in the Middle East, perhaps we would open our gates and let the Jews leave...
...record view of some of the State Department's top hands, the most dangerous spot in the world today is Syria. What disturbs them most is the incalculable ingredient in Nikita Khrushchev's makeup: how far this unpredictable, risk-taking Communist boss may go in foreign adventuring, to get himself out of domestic problems. Starting with this substantial concern, the U.S. last week acted with such heavy-handed zeal that even its friends in the Middle East felt compelled to react against...