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...reappearance also had some spurious elements to it. Out of sight for six months, and reportedly ailing from either a stroke or a severe heart attack, the Chinese ruler suddenly turned up in blurred, front-page newspaper photos chatting amiably with visiting Albanian Premier Mehmet Shehu. Despite his hearty grin, Mao seemed unnaturally bloated...
...Behr saw no evidence that they were in a mood to revolt. Even if they were, Hoxha's successor would probably be no better; in a demonstration of nepotism that outclasses even Hollywood, the party's top leaders are almost all related to Hoxha or Premier Mehmet Shehu...
...exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical aid to many underdeveloped nations, which need to expand exports to pay interest (up to 7%) on development loans. Duty-free admission for all tropical products, urged Nigeria's Alhaji Shehu Shagari, would "provide a real ray of light that would dispel the somber cloud that has shrouded the activities of this child of hope...
Satanic Gossips. Some delegates sounded like gossip columnists on a satanic news sheet. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan claimed that Albania's Premier Mehmet Shehu said Stalin made two mistakes: he died too soon and he did not destroy the "present leadership of the Soviet Communist Party." Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva told the Congress that Lazar Kaganovich was personally responsible for the execution of hundreds of railroad executives in the 1950s; the Ukraine's Nikolai Podgorny labeled Kaganovich a "degenerate" and a "real sadist." A Byelorussian delegate charged that former Party Secretary Georgy Malenkov helped the secret police frame...
...Shehu seems to have asked for it. Albania is the one European satellite which seems to have chosen Peking in the intramural ideological conflict between Russia and Red China. In June, when Khrushchev summoned all the satellite party chiefs to Bucharest to ratify his policy of "peaceful" coexistence, Albanian Party Secretary Enver Hoxha was the only top Communist boss missing. At the U.N., Shehu was noticeably more vigorous than Khrushchev in speaking up for admission of Red China, impudently echoing Red China's scornful charge that Russian Communism is losing its ideological militancy because it is afraid of nuclear...