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...groped for in a large box stuffed with shredded paper and excelsior. The style swings from a somewhat wide-eyed journalese to a plodding heroic prose. The best parts, it turns out, are lifted in great chunks from his earlier books of war reporting. He quotes endlessly from Pravda and Red Star editorials; he pads out his pages with Supreme Soviet speeches complete with the ritual enthusiasm of "(prolonged, stormy applause)"; he is mercilessly repetitious...
...Pravda and Izvestia printed friendly articles about Albania, and the Soviet Union dispatched fraternal greetings on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "liberation" of Albania from Axis occupation. It was wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great...
...basic differences between Russia and Red China certainly could not be talked away, as a Pravda editorial on the day of Chou's departure indicated. Said Pravda: "The Soviet Union is firmly against all plans designed to heat up the international atmosphere." Clearly, Moscow was not ready to buy Peking's hard line-at least for the moment. But by the time Chou finished his long goodbye and flew home to Peking, a Sino-Soviet dialogue had been established for the first time in 16 months. The olive branch had been offered to all warring parties...
Despite a glittering new job offer-deputy manager of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a party blat deep in Khrushchev's virgin lands-Aleksei decided to hang around. After all, Wife Rada still had her job as an editor of a Moscow scientific journal...
...corner the Khrushchev story, the Times mustered all three of its house Kremlinologists-Harry Schwartz, who knows Soviet economics, Harrison E. Salisbury, who can read Pravda and Izvestia without a pony, and Max Frankel, who taps Russian experts in the State Department. Foreign News Editor Emanuel Freedman calmly placed a phone call to Moscow 955477, three hours later was talking to the Times's Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Tanner. In the meantime, other messages had been relayed to Tanner through the Times's London and Paris bureaus...