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From Hungary, in the midst of a ten-day visit, Khrushchev grimly ordered into print the "resolute counterattack" he had threatened last September. Next day seven pages of Pravda were devoted to a scalding speech of excommunication prepared privately seven weeks ago by Soviet Ideologist Mikhail Suslov for this very contingency. Suslov, who can be as foulmouthed a Marxist as Mao, damned the Chinese for "apostasy," "petty-bourgeois nationalism," "neo-Trotskyist deviation" and "hysterical" pronouncements that aligned Peking's leadership "with the most aggressive circles of imperialism...
Although Nikita Khrushchev suddenly discovered urgent business in Kiev, the Kremlin was stiffly correct about it all, sent out its chief dialectician, lanky, austere Mikhail Suslov, to meet the visitors. Head of Peking's seven-man mission: Teng Hsiao-ping, secretary-general of the Chinese Communist Party. As Teng stepped out of a Soviet TU-104 jet, a crowd of Chinese residents in Moscow, watched closely by a Chinese army colonel, sent up a cheer...
...Suslov smiled, stepped forward and shook Teng's hand. But the Russian omitted the usual brief welcoming address, instead politely suggested that Teng might like a two-hour rest before getting down to business. When a Chinese delegate remarked on the chilly 57° temperature, a Muscovite Red replied: "We hope it will get warmer." Fresh Insults. In one sense, things undoubtedly got warmer when both sides met behind the massive walls of a rarely used mansion in the Lenin Hills section of Moscow. Suslov and Teng exchanged toasts, but that was just routine. For under the pose...
...prestige and personality he is a match for Suslov, 60, who for years was Stalin's ideological mouthpiece, and now supplies Khrushchev with the theoretical justifications for political strategy...
...they move into the most elite echelon of the Soviet hier archy. Only four other Red leaders hold such a double position, and none is Khrushchev's likely successor. The four: Frol Kozlov, 54, who suffered a severe stroke in April; elderly Otto Kuusinen, 81; Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 60, compromised by a Stalinist past; and Khrushchev himself...