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...Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler met in the Kremlin with Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny just before a high-level Soviet group headed by Aleksandr Shelepin, the party's No. 2 man, left for Hanoi. And in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Hungarian officials, who had made it clear that they, too, wanted to join the lengthening procession of countries hopeful of mediating...
...Egypt's little Suez war with France, Britain and Israel. After parade's end, the crowd waited expectantly to hear whether President Gamal Abdel Nasser could top his performance of a year ago, when he pounded the lectern for the benefit of visiting Soviet Bigwig Aleksandr Shelepin and told the U.S. to go "drink the sea"-the Arab equivalent of "Go jump in the lake...
Most important of the shifts was the one least publicized. In brief wire service bulletins, Tass tersely announced that it had been found "expedient for Aleksandr Shelepin to concentrate his activity at the Central Committee." Shelepin, 47, was "relieved" of his posts as Deputy Premier and head of a key committee exercising vigilance over every aspect of Soviet life from the army to the arts. To many Western Kremlin watchers, the lean, strongly "positioned Shelepin seemed "the Stalin of the future." He may have looked that way to his peers in the Kremlin as well, for his removal last week...
News from Up There. The Kremlin shake-up left Russia's two top leaders untouched. If anything, Party Boss Brezhnev was strengthened by Podgorny's isolation, while Premier Aleksei Kosygin benefited by Shelepin's removal from the government side of the Kremlin power structure. Significantly, the budget that was passed by acclamation before the personnel changes were announced once again put stress on consumer goods and light industrial development-two aims in which Brezhnev and Kosygin concur. With much snarling about warlike U.S. imperialism, they also raised the Soviet defense budget by 5%. But the hike...
Another Russian specialist, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that that was an advancement for Shelepin and a demotion for Podgerny. However, he noted, "if people think he's the heir apparent, chances are he won't assume the throne." He described Shelepin as a man of "cool intelligence." He's a kind of McGeorge Bundy figure, only more sinister," he said...