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Last week Moscow sent a delegation to Ulan Bator to the 14th Outer Mongolian Communist Party Congress while virtually ignoring the 40th anniversary of the Chinese party in Peking. Pravda, which uses layout and column inch with Politburo precision, reported the Ulan Bator festivities in a big Page One spread, relegated the Peking fete to a small item on page 6. Polish Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz set off to pay an official visit to Ulan Bator, but have been told by Khrushchev to stop there, not to go on to neighboring China. Russia publicly embarrassed...
...Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...
...flop, the evidence being bare shop shelves and the sagging value of the Guinean franc. Toure has been forced to trim the power of the state import monopoly, allowing private traders to handle some foreign goods. This right face has led to a sharp split in Guinea's Politburo between Sekou Toure, who seems to be willing to try anything provided it pays off, and his militant half-brother Ismael, who thinks Marxism is the answer to every problem...
Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
...maiden flight-a disaster that was officially attributed to "sabotage" by Designer Manfred Gerlach (TIME, Sept. 12). While other engineers have been trying to get the bugs out of the BB-152-II, the aircraft plants have sporadically been turning out piecework: incubators, luggage racks, TV antennas. The Politburo's decision that airplane building is a luxury East Germany cannot now afford seems likely to ground for good East German hopes of high-flying grandeur...