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Retaining his most powerful position as party First Secretary, Kadar, 53, handed the premiership to black-haired, moon-faced ex-Journalist Gyula Kallai, 55, his lifelong friend, sometime jail-mate (between 1951 and 1954, under Stalinist Matyas Rakosi), and longtime foreign affairs adviser, who since 1960 has been Deputy Premier. Kadar also reshuffled his Politburo, replaced creaking party stalwarts with younger men. Janos Brutyo, 54, and Sandor Caspar, 48, two tough administrators, were named respectively president and secretary-general of the trade unions, and Zoltan Komocsin, 42, editor of the Communist organ Nepszabadsag, became party director of foreign affairs...
Slight Thaw. Rumanian foreign policy favors Soviet-style peaceful coexistence, but Dej himself was as much a Stalinist as Mao. A onetime shoemaker's apprentice, he used Stalin's backing to oust Ana Pauker, the Communist Amazon, in 1952. His regime, despite some slight thawing, maintains just about the greyest, grimmest police state in Europe. Not until last year were 10,000 of his 12,000 political prisoners released...
...Premier had ever visited before. Despite the short notice, North Korea's Boss Kim II Sung rolled out the Red carpet for his unexpected guest: frenzied crowds waving Soviet flags roared "Mansei! [May you live 10,000 years]" as Kosygin arrived at Pyongyang airport. Kim, a Peking-lining Stalinist who only a month ago rudely rejected an invitation to Moscow, embraced Aleksei warmly. "We consider amity and unity between our two nations most valuable," he said. Of course: since Russia brusquely decided to cut back Kim II Sung's supply of jet fuel and spare parts, North Korea...
Albania gets a black mark for staging show trials of political opponents in the worst Stalinist tradition. Cameroun is condemned for banning opposition parties. Portugal is reprimanded for censoring its press. U.S. segregationists are denounced for flouting the U.S. Constitution. With Olympian impartiality, the quarterly Bulletin of the International Commission of Jurists attacks violations of human rights wherever it finds them...
Pepsi for Communists. East Germany, whose Stalinist warts long made it a wallflower in the eyes of Western businessmen, is being wooed by everyone from the torrid Latins to the cool Scandinavians. In the past two months it has signed new trade pacts with France, Denmark and Italy. France, in fact, is aiming to overtake West Germany as the biggest dealer with Communism. Two months ago, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing signed a treaty to double trade with Russia to $700 million over the next five years; next month he will talk to Bulgaria...