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...peace and sanity" in Moscow's missile misadventure in the Caribbean. Regarding Berlin, Kosygin omitted the usual Communist demand that Western troops quit the city and did not refer, even vaguely, to a deadline for a separate Soviet peace treaty with East Germany. Next day, Defense Chief Rodion Malinovsky reduced his professional rocket-rattling to below last year's noise level, reviewed an eight-minute march-past of military hardware that included only one new item: a 50-ft.-long, probably solid-fuel missile that was billed by the Russians as capable of being fired from a submerged...
...Leninist" leadership of Comrade Khrushchev, and pointedly recalling Stalin's errors. By thus using the broken old soldier, Khrushchev caused speculation that he might want a military man's prestige to bolster his own position against army critics, possibly rallied around tough Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
Behind the façade of normalcy, grim business proceeded. The Chaika limousines of Moscow's top officials rolled in and out of the Kremlin as the Council of Ministers met. Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky put his vast air, sea and land force on a state of alert. None of this could disguise the fact that, stage by stage, Khrushchev was backing away from conflict. His offer of a deal with the West told the astonished Russian public for the first time that Russian missiles were in Cuba. His agreement to withdraw them was of course hailed...
Thus, last week. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky crowed: "Let our enemies know what techniques and what soldiers our Soviet power disposes of. " Beyond question, President Kennedy has taken a much more serious view of the space competition than did President Eisenhower. In his May 1961 speech to Congress, the President committed the U.S. to the moon race, added $500 million to NASA's budget for that purpose. In the current fiscal year, total space expenditures will run to about $5.5 billion. For advanced man-in-space projects, Kennedy has boosted funding from...
...peaceful transition of power in the Soviet dictatorship. In that future contest, some other figures must be reckoned with: Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 59, who may be too old for the top job, but whose long party career may make him a kingmaker, if not a king; Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 63, beefy, belligerent Soviet Defense Minister, who controls the army; Aleksandr Shelepin, 43, ex-boss of the relatively sanitized secret police. Dark horses include Andrei Kirilenko, 55, a member of the Party Presidium, who surprisingly bounced back from disfavor; Gennadi Yoronov, 50, who was recently promoted to full membership...