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Nikita Khrushchev is a man who likes crowds, and last week in Indonesia he finally found them. In India and Burma, where the touring Communist boss drew relatively sparse turnouts and notably sharp criticism from the newspapers, he had grown progressively more glum and irritable. But as he descended from his silvery Ilyushin-18 turboprop at Djakarta's sun-drenched airport last week, Nikita was met by close to 100,000 people, including brilliantly costumed groups from the outlying islands of the Indonesian nation: pretty girls in sarongs, from Timor; Maduran farmers with rice scythes; barelegged hunters from Borneo...
...India and Burma, where Khrushchev was received correctly but with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm, he responded with heavy-handed boasts about Soviet achievements and waspish attacks on the motives behind Western offers of economic aid. But his theme seemed dated in lands that have been independent for more than ten years. At a banquet in Calcutta he snapped, "I don't think all of you understand us correctly when we manifest a certain hotheadedness against the colonialists. Just as you don't understand us, neither can we understand you Indians. For so many ages you have been...
Though the field marshal not long ago declared himself "not interested in personal power; I would rather retire and enjoy myself," Pakistanis last week saw signs that, unlike Burma's General Ne Win, who seems really to shrink from publicity, Good Soldier Ayub more and more enjoys basking in the role of his nation's savior...
Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo...
...ambitious young cadet in time became the debonair Right Honorable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O. He was a destroyer flotilla skipper in the Mediterranean, later Britain's wartime South East Asia commander, and then Viceroy of India during India's difficult transition to independence. At last, after achieving, like his father before him, the rank of First Sea Lord, he became Britain's first Chief of the Defense Staff...