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...crisis. Prime Minister Macmillan indicated in answer to a Commons question that Britain was already corresponding with Russia, would be willing to discuss Berlin if Russia is reasonable. There were signs that the strong U.S. stance, though it might have made its allies a bit nervous had impressed Khrushchev. Pravda last week asserted, in the wake of the Allied notes, that Russia "was and is ready for talks both on the German question and all other outstanding issues...
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...
...blue oceans and brown-and-green continents flecked with white clouds. But well-trained astronauts will know that a dangerous ordeal-a flaming return through the atmosphere-stands between them and home. Only one man, Major Yuri Gagarin of the U.S.S.R., has made such a descent. Last week in Pravda he described the long dive...
Nikita Khrushchev bounced back into Moscow like a man who felt he had carried off all the marbles. "That tireless herald of friendship and cooperation among nations," as Pravda called him, had not been so gay since he gave up heavy drinking. Flying direct from Vienna, he arrived just in time to greet Indonesia's wide-roaming President Sukarno, whom he presented with a car and a six-foot bronze statue of a Soviet sportswoman. Next night Khrushchev brought all the top Soviet brass to Sukarno's 60th birthday party, held on the lawn of the Indonesian embassy...
Intriguing Idea. In Washington, the Russian visitors watched the U.S. Senate convene, spent an hour talking to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, and 15 minutes with President Kennedy. But none of this impressed Pravda's Maevsky so much as a chat with Presidential Economic Adviser Walter Heller, who told him, said Maevsky, that the U.S., in the event of peace, could dismantle its defense industries without disrupting its economy. Maevsky found the idea intriguing...