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MOSCOW, May 7--Nikita Khrushchev lashed out at Soviet bureaucracy today in asking the Supreme Soviet to approve his plan to "transfer the center of gravity" of the Soviet economy. "There are entirely too many supervisors employed by every factory," the Communist party chief declared...
...Life is returning to normalcy. We must exert all efforts to ease international tensions." Thus, fortnight ago, Nikita Khrushchev called for a change of pace in Russian diplomacy, which for weeks past has consisted largely of sending threatening notes all over Europe, warning NATO allies not to allow atomic bases within their borders. Last week, obedient to Khrushchev's signal, Russia began spraying the air with a new set of spitballs...
That pudgy face bears an uncanny similarity to another political tyrant who would supposingly benefit the great mass of people -Nikita Khrushchev...
When a Russian says someone has "passed him a pig" he means that he has been done a dirty trick. Last week Nikita Khrushchev, who farrows folksy epigrams wherever his pudgy frame goes, told a gathering of farm bosses and workers that if only they would concentrate on producing more pigs, say two per citizen, the expression "passing a pig" would mean doing a good deed, instead of a bad one. In the next breath Khrushchev passed Soviet citizenry its biggest pig in many a year: he declared a moratorium on 260 billion rubles ($65billion) lent to the state...
Khrushchev did not expect the West to believe that Soviet workers would gladly accept the loss of a theoretical 260 billion rubles on outstanding loans. Grunted Nikita: "Comrades, the capitalist-that shopkeeper who would slaughter his own father for a half-percent interest-will never believe that you consent to this of your own free will. He will read about it in the papers and say they have intimidated the workers and peasants." And in fact there were two reasons why the Soviet worker might not be wholly displeased with the state pig passed to him by Khrushchev...