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...association was founded in 1947 by 24 American campus leaders, including White House Aide Douglass Cater, then a recent Harvard graduate, after a trip to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague, where lavishly financed Communist groups stole the show; one of their organizers was Komsomol Leader Aleksandr Shelepin, who was later to head the Soviet internal security agency...
...puppet state of Albania, and it had a distinctly claustrophobic edge to it. No doubt about it, Red China was beginning to sit up and take notice of the mounting Soviet diplomatic campaign to grab a bigger role in Asia (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week, with Kremlin Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent, the Soviets gloated over their new 20-year mutual assistance, friendship and cooperation treaty with Outer Mongolia, the pro-Soviet land on Red China's sensitive Sinkiang frontier...
Departing Hanoi last week, Soviet Envoy Aleksandr Shelepin proclaimed that the Soviets, as a result of his week of talks with Ho & Co., will "support and assist the Vietnamese with all their might in consolidating the defense potential of North Viet Nam." Carefully left unsaid was whether the Kremlin troubleshooter had promised Hanoi significantly more arms for the war or urged an arm's-length look at the possibility of a negotiated peace. Or both...
Peking also suspected that Shelepin's mission to Hanoi might have a pacifying motive. "Before taking the decision to send Shelepin," insisted Radio Peking, "the Soviet Union was undoubtedly tipped off by the U.S. about its pause in bombing." In any case Shelepin's visit could indeed help determine whether or not a "signal" ever comes from Hanoi. For the war in Viet Nam is more and more the chief ideological dueling ground of the Sino-Soviet quarrel...
That was evident in Shelepin's trip itself. Kremlin watchers think the trip was delayed by Peking, which was slow to come through with permission to fly over China. True or not, there was no doubt of Shelepin's chilly reception when his jet touched down at Peking airport en route to Hanoi for a "technical stopover." An unsmiling Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten...