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Sleigh Ride. But the Russian people had good reason to guess that a shortage lay ahead. Recently bread stores have rationed customers to two loaves per purchase, and Pravda last week launched a massive campaign against grain wastage and theft. The foreman of a mill in the Kaluga region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties...
...when the Gimo sent him to Moscow in 1925 "to learn more about revolutionary ideas." He joined the Komsomol and studied guerrilla tactics at a Red army academy. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, a letter over Ching-kuo's name appeared in Pravda denouncing his father as a "traitor." He says the letter was a forgery...
...than a U.S.-Russian alliance, accused Moscow of perpetrating "a dirty fraud," and of "selling out" Communists everywhere, "including the people of China." The Soviets replied in kind, called the Red Chinese "wild men" who borrow their arguments against the test ban from De Gaulle. "Sooner or later," said Pravda, "the madmen will have to shut up." And Khrushchev optimistically and probably accurately told Test Ban Negotiator Averell Harriman that it will be "a long time" before Peking has its own nuclear bombs...
Absolute Equality. Throughout the on-and-off meetings, the ideological fire continued above the heads of the delegates. The Kremlin splashed a policy statement on the front page of Pravda that ominously warned Peking of the "dangerous consequences" of its policy. As for Nikita Khrushchev, he called out the brass bands, honor guard and television cameras to welcome Hungary's Janos Kadar, who repaid the flattery by once again backing Moscow's line of peaceful coexistence...
...troupe of Patagonian jugglers would have received a warmer welcome from the Kremlin. Not a single Soviet reporter or photographer was on hand when the men from Peking appeared at Moscow airport; Pravda did not even mention their arrival. After months of invective, accusations and counteraccusations, the great confrontation between Soviet and Chinese Party delegations was finally at hand. East and West watched the showdown-or what could be seen of it-with equal fascination...