Word: rifted
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...National People"s Congress will convene on March 5. Hardly by coincidence, Khrushchev called a Kremlin meeting of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee for the same date, ostensibly to discuss Soviet agriculture. In fact, a main topic, acknowledged or not, will be the Mao-Khrushchev rift and what to do about it. But the agricultural problem on the agenda is more than camouflage. Amid their ideological battles, both the Russian and Chinese regimes are urgently concerned with the price of eggs and hogs, which is ultimately related to the price of political survival...
...London the cash-on-the-line sale (an estimated $8,400,000) meant a break in Peking's isolation from the West, perhaps a further widening of the Sino-Soviet rift. With the Vickers Viscounts go technicians and spare parts, spelling an end to Russia's grip on Red Chinese aviation. Word of new deals followed -trucks, fuel and lubricating oil. more planes...
...Runs the argument: now that the Wall is up to prevent major population leakage, Moscow might well be prepared to strengthen its satellite by trying a softer approach with the stubborn, restive East German people. Ulbricht's party organ, Neues Deutschland, noted the rumors of a Khrushchev-Ulbricht rift by elaborately denying...
...write "will" now instead of "would" because Britain has already, possibly without wanting to, made a choice. Not only does the application constitute a kind of moral commitment, but the failure of negotiations at this stage could cause a severe rift in the Atlantic Alliance. Beyond all this, Britain may be beginning to realize that it needs the Common Market badly, if only to reinject itself with a vital spirit of activity. The Government cannot always sustain itself, as it did recently, by simply reaching into the International Monetary Fund with a draft for $2 billion...
...Chinese Communist Premier Chou Enlai, who had walked out of the Party Congress in Moscow over Khrushchev's scarcely veiled attack on Red China. Peking's leaders, Khrushchev suggested, were "hopeless dogmatists" who had turned "their eyes from life." Chou's huffy departure disclosed a new rift in an uneasy partnership between Soviet and Chinese Communists that had been ripped, patched over, torn and repapered for the last 40 years...