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More Fanfare. His successor as Premier, Aleksei Kosygin, delivered the state-of-the-Soviet-Union speech in 80 minutes, unrelieved by Khrushchevian corn pone, invective or grandiloquence...
Peaceful coexistence, Kosygin insisted, continues to be the policy of the Soviet Union. To prove it, he said, the Soviet Union plans to reduce its 1965 military budget by $555 million-from this year's $14.6 billion to $14.1 billion...
This was being done, claimed Kosygin, because the Kremlin had been told by Washington that the U.S. military budget for next year was being...
More Capital. Kosygin's chief news tor the Russian people came in his presentation of a relatively sensible-sounding 1965 budget. It suggested that the new regime wants to go on with "goulash Communism"-but more efficiently, ,more evenhandedly and less flamboyantly than Khrushchev...
...Kosygin announced increased emphasis on the production of consumer goods and construction of apartments. While the "metal eaters" of the steel industry are not to be stomped on as Khrushchev tried to do, metallurgy will get a smaller slice of capital outlays than consumer goods or food. The chemical industry is due for a sizable share of capital, though it will not switch to making plastics for consumers with the abandon visualized by Khrushchev. Heavy industry in general, said Kosygin, will have to move into some consumer lines such as "refrigerators, washing machines and television sets...