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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Nov. 16, 1962
Indications Mount Of U.S.S.R. Unrest
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
For many weeks, long before eruption of the Cuban crisis, unusually frank dispatches from Moscow have been reporting mounting troubles for Nikita Khrushchev at home.
These included widespread agricultural failures and a seemingly endless list of industrial snufas running all the way from a shortage of women's black lace lingerie to the production of cement.
This week brought new stories of Soviet labor unrest which, coupled with earlier reports of rioting against increased meat and butter prices, added to evidence of mounting discontent among the Soviet people.
TAKEN TOGETHER, these dispatches gave new reason for other Moscow reports that the Kremlin now seeks a period of quiet on the international front so it can turn its attention to problems at home.
Disappointing crop reports came from virgin lands of northern Kazakstan and from the Ukraine. Only in Great Russia, the area surrounding Moscow, was there a report of a "record" grain harvest.
Last summer, reports never confirmed by the Kremlin but generally credited by the West, told of wild rioting in a southern industrial city over a hike in food prices.
Later reports have told of thousands of Soviet construction workers walking off their jobs in the industrial Kuznetsk basin in Siberia. The workers were protesting unsatisfactory living and housing conditions.
THESE SAME REPORTS told of more than $600 million tied up in unfinished construction projects and more than $80 million worth of machinery idle because of unfinished factories.
All this points to a new shakeup in Soviet planning agencies and perhaps to more belt-tightening for the hapless Soviet citizen.
For those seeking straws in the wind pointing the direction of Soviet policy, Party slogans accompanying the recent celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution's 45th anniversary seemed to provide interesting food for thought.
The slogans virtually ignored heavy industry, indicating a continuing de-emphasis of that branch of the Soviet economy, along with curtailment of new capital investments.
COAL MINERS were urged to their "utmost" to make full use of their tools, but there was no mention of further mechanization or automation.
Similar omissions were noted in the oil and gas industries.
Rapid expansion of electric power, building, wood-working and chemical industries, according to the slogans, will be continued.
References to Khrushchev's pet agricultural projects, such as the planting of sugar-beets, beans, peas and corn were dropped.
And smacking suspiciously of capitalism have been recent suggestions that an incentive system should be installed for Soviet workers.
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KU Senior Featured In Magazine Article
A KU senior in Engineering is featured in the November issue of Echo, a publication of the Kansas City Works of Western Electric Co.
George W. Taylor, Independence, Mo., holder of a $625 Western Electric Fund scholarship at KU, was selected to represent the 167 students at 114 colleges and universities receiving assistance from the fund. The feature, "Scholarship Student," includes several photos of Taylor.
Taylor, resides with his wife,
Laura, at Stouffer Place.
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