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...week's end the team of Nick and Mick broke up. Mikoyan, the trade specialist, journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...first hint of big things to come was the announcement from Belgrade that Russia would at last make good on its broken promise of $250 million in aid to Tito's Yugoslavia. Four days later came Radio Moscow's announcement: Soviet Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Tito had met "somewhere in Rumania," Khrushchev had brought along a tidy delegation, including agile First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, a trade expert, and 76-year-old Otto Kuusinen, former Secretary of the Comintern. But Khrushchev's old partner, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, did not come along, and he will...
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...Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is as guilty of the crimes of Stalinism as the men he has unseated; on the record, he is no "liberal" Communist, but a man who has stolen Malenkov's "liberal" program and then indicted Malenkov as a reactionary. But the odd thing about Khrushchev, in a land where no man has a free vote, is that he is a man busily running for office...
...Shepilov "antiparty group" for resisting progress. Orated Zhukov: "Its members objected in particular to the slogan: 'Catch up in the next few years to the United States in per capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted to give up the rights and privileges they had held in their hands for nearly 30 years." In short, said Zhukov, these men were "freaks" not worthy of being party members...