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...seeds of conflict are visible, too, in Russians' acute awareness of the 5,000-mile border between underpopulated Siberia and jampacked China. Khrushchev's pouring of more than 1,000,000 young Russians into the lands beyond the Urals is almost certainly designed in part to populate the empty reaches of Siberia before Red China grows much moire powerful. Nor does the Kremlin make much effort to disguise the fact that it would be happier to see China expand toward Southeast Asia than toward the north...
...peasant face of Nikita Khrushchev, looming on this week's cover against a symbolic background of the U.S., was painted by Bernard Safran, the son of a Russian immigrant who escaped to the U.S. in 1908 at 18, after being exiled to Siberia from his native town of Priluki (near Kiev) in the Ukraine. U.S.-born Bernie Safran studied hundreds of pictures of Khrushchev in action, finally painted the cocksure impression of a dictator that most Americans will best remember after the guest departs...
...only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
...enthusiastic receptions the people of Russia, Siberia and Poland gave Nixon proves how they, like us, prefer Nixon and Americanism over Khrushchev and Communism. J. KESNER KAHN Chicago
...Despite Sputnik, the Soviet drive to scientific advancement is not as far advanced as many Americans believe-even the impressive new scientific center at Novosibirsk represents primarily a plan to uproot scientists in other cities and put them to work under government domination in Siberia; in its atomic power programs, the U.S.S.R. still uses old devices that the U.S. abandoned years...