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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 31, 1965
New Russian Leaders to Fall By 1970, Soviet Expert Says
By Harihar Krishnan
It is quite likely that the new Russian leaders will find themselves out of power by 1970, Klaus Mehnert, an authority on Soviet affairs said here yesterday.
here yesterday:
The elimination of Khrushchev from the leadership of the Soviet machinery has not resulted in the elimination of Khrushchevism, Mehnert said, instead the leaders could be called "Khrushchevites minus Khrushchev."
MEHNERT, WHO SPOKE on "The Soviet Union Since the Fall of Khrushehev," is the director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Aachen (Germany). He was born in Russia.
He was born in Russia.
"The reasons for the fall of Khrushchev were more personal then political." Mehnert said.
the people, who were closest to him, whom he had designated as his heirs, felt they were no longer with him. His humor and his erratic ways of handling things, that had endeared him to us, were not the right actions according to the rest of the Soviet leadership," he said.
THE FAULT of Khrushchev was that he continued to make more and more decisions on his own, without consulting the rest of the party chiefs. He started addressing a greater and greater audience of common people to such an extent that he created resentment among the higher authorities of the presidium. Mehnert explained.
"When the question regarding his proposed visit to West Germany came up, Khrushchev did not discuss this in the committee. Instead of sending his Foreign Minister Gromkyo to study the situation, he sent his son-in-law Azhubev," Mehnert said.
"His agricultural policies with which he had always identified himself also proved to be a failure." Mehnert said.
"THE WITHDRAWAL from Cuba certainly made the people of Russia happy," Mehnert said, "but the people close to him felt it was an adventurer's policy."
The deterioration of the relationships with China was greatly due to Khrushchev's personal antagonism towards her. The stories about his youth, which he was very fond of telling people, were based on anti-Chinese principles. Everytime he told them, he made China very unhappy, Mehnert said.
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Khrushhev tried to call a conference of 26 communist nations on December 15,1964. This was also his chance to excommunicate China from the communist world.
"BY OCTOBER, IT was clear that only 11 of the 26 nations would accept the invitation. This was a big blow to the Soviet prestige, and the Soviet leaders could not let such things go any longer," Mehnitn said.
Khrushchevism was not the invention of Khrushchev, Mehnert explained. "It was the result of the development of the Russian life on the whole. Khrushchev recognized that changes in the Russian society were beginning to show up.
HE ALSO RECOGNIZED that foreign policy changes had to be made. Confrontation of any sort with outside nations, he felt, had to be avoided even at the expense of losing face.
The new leaders have not attempted to make any fundamental or spectacular changes in these Khrushchevism factors.
In the domestic policies as related to industry, Mehnert said. Khrushchev had hesitatingly started a policy based on the Lieberman theory, which said that planned economy
would cease to work when goods produced were not scarce.
AS REGARDS FOREIGN affairs also, there have not been any spectacular changes made in the Khrushchev policy. Those who expected a complete change in the new Soviet regime's attitude towards China, have been disappointed. "The new leadership is using a very calm and unprovocative approach towards China.
There has not been any change in policy towards other nations either, Mehnert said. Nations like India, Yugoslavia are getting the same treatment as they did during the time of Khrushchev. All the "sins" that China complained Khrushchev committed are being committed by the new leaders also.
THE PRO CHINESE group in the Communist world is growing stronger. Mehnert said.
One of the strongest weapons the Chinese are using against Russia is the "color" issue. "They try to convince the Afro-Asian nations that the Russians are 'whites' like the other 'imperialists.' As regards Viet Nam, the possibility of a full scale participation by the Soviet Union cannot be ignored.
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UPI—A threatened strike by printers and several other unions against seven major New York City daily newspapers was postponed early today at the end of nearly 12 hours of negotiations at city hall.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner, who was instrumental in ending a 114-day strike against the city's newspapers in 1962-63, said in a statement issued at 4 a.m. EST he had obtained an agreement that the unions would give 24-hour prior notice before calling a strike.
The talks between representatives of the New York City Publishers Association and officials of the International Typographical Union (ITU) were scheduled to resume later today. Both sides issued conflicting statements as to the status of the talks.
THE MAYOR, who had returned from a White House dinner party to take a hand in the negotiations, said he would be "available at any time of the day or night."
A strike had been set for 2 a.m. today, but Wagner got one-hour extensions from both the printers and the photoengravers to keep the talks going.
The two-year contracts of 10 separate newspaper unions expired at midnight. The city hall session began about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Bertram A. Powers, president of the ITU's Local 6, said progress had been made in the talks with the publishers.
The printers had been offered a weekly increase of $10.50 over a two-year period. They had demanded $15 on a one-year contract, which Powers said was a "negotiable figure."
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