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...State for Public Affairs, Ambassador to Finland and director of the U.S. Information Agency. Rowan now writes a thrice-weekly column carried by 150 newspapers. As a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Rowan made a reputation covering civil rights, later received assignments on major nonblack stories. He covered Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the Midwest and the Hungarian and Suez crises...
Secret Speech. Despite the lack of supporting evidence, however, what made last week's rumor so intriguing to Kremlinologists was the serious economic plight of the Soviet Union. Once before, a similar situation presaged a change of leadership; that was in 1964, when Nikita Khrushchev was ousted mainly because of economic troubles. Ever since Brezhnev's secret speech to the Central Committee in mid-December, which stressed grave economic problems, there has been speculation that a change might take place in the top leadership some time this year...
Solzhenitsyn won fame in 1962 when Nikita Khrushchev authorized the publication in Russia of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a chilling indictment of Stalin-era labor camps. In 1966, however, Solzhenitsyn's writings were banned. Manuscripts that Solzhenitsyn had previously submitted to Soviet publishers began circulating from hand to hand in Russia. The KGB seized others from the writer. As a result, a number of novels, stories, poems and plays have been peddled to Western publishers by shadowy figures claiming to be "representatives" of the author. Sometimes the items for sale were accompanied by purported authorizations...
...Tvardovsky's greatest service to Russia and Russian literature was his discovery and support of the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It was Tvardovsky, for example, who first brought One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (see SHOW BUSINESS) to the attention of Nikita Khrushchev. The Premier was so impressed by the novel that he ordered it to be published in Novy Mir in 1962. But in 1966 Solzhenitsyn's writings were banned and he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union last November...
...Most important, the pipe-for-gas trade indicates that trade relations between Bonn and Moscow are less and less influenced by the cold war. Seven years ago, the Germans had arranged to sell pipe to the Soviet Union, but the deal was blocked by the NATO strategic-goods embargo. Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged that he thumped his fist on a table and roared: "Even pants buttons can be called strategic goods. How are soldiers to hold their pants up without buttons...