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...days, are considered cases more in need of psychiatric care than punishment. But last week the father of the terror, bearded London-and Moscow-educated Jomo Kenyatta, the notorious "Burning Spear" feared by whites and Kikuyu tribesmen alike, was let out of jail. He had served his seven-year sentence, with 28 months off for good behavior...
While Western diplomats and editorialists continued to discuss terms by which Russia might be persuaded to unify Germany, all signs indicated that Khrushchev has no intention of giving up control of his half. Communist economic blueprints under the new seven-year plan point plainly to East Germany's assigned role as the industrial heart of the satellite bloc...
...Told My People . . ." As a precaution against a Nairobi mob demonstrating in Kenyatta's favor, the court was moved to Kitale, 200 miles to the north. Kenyatta's seven-year sentence to "hard labor" is being spent as cook to six other Mau Mau leaders, and with a year off for good behavior, he is scheduled to be freed next month. Last week Kenyatta appeared in court in dapper leather jacket and carrying a silver-embossed ebony cane that was a gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that...
From first to last, Moscow's 21st Communist Party Congress was Nikita Khrushchev's show. It opened with his boast that Russia is first in the firmament, with its Lunik and its "mass-produced" intercontinental rockets, and his seven-year economic plan would make it first on earth. It closed with the cocky boss, an energetic 64, firing some of the roughest and rudest taunts that he has ever let fly at the West. In between, 86 Soviet delegates and 45 representatives of foreign Communist parties paid telling tribute to "the distinguished activity," "the tremendous organizing work...
...Promiser. With only a 20-minute noon break for nonalcoholic refreshments, Khrushchev talked for six hours. Topic No.1 before this extraordinary session was Russia's seven-year economic goals. Khrushchev was still trumpeting his familiar promises-80% more industrial output, 70% greater farm production, 62% more consumer-goods production-but, significantly, he omitted his 1970 target date for overtaking the U.S. He promised shorter hours, higher pay, a front door for every family, income tax repeal, "greatly reduced" police surveillance ("There are now no cases of people being made to stand trial for political crimes") -and he breezily explained...