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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 15, 1964
70 Years Old Friday
Nikita Appears Healthy Physically, Politically
In the following dispatch, UPI correspondent Henry Shapiro, who has spent more than 25 years in Moscow where he is dean of western newsmen, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who celebrates his 70th birthday April 17.
By Henry Shapiro United Press International
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, "the ruler of all the Russians," will celebrate his 70th birthday Friday, apparently in better physical shape and more secure in his power than any of his predecessors in Soviet history.
Eleven years after his assumption of supreme authority, Khrushchev is now wrestling with two major critical problems which in many other countries could easily topple the ruling regime.
The once monolithic Communist International, which Lenin built and Stalin expanded and consolidated, has been convulsed by the irreparable break with China and resultant disarray in the world Communist movement. The Chinese are now hurling charges of treason and heresy against Khrushchev and are demanding his confinement "to the dustheap of history."
"THE CHINESE clamor for Khrushchev's head will have no more effect in the Soviet Union than a possible American appeal to the French people to remove DeGaulle," a veteran Western ambassador said.
recently. "It will only serve to strengthen his position with the Soviet leadership and people."
Domestically, the Soviet Union is experiencing a year of great hardship following the disastrous agricultural failures of 1963 and a host of other economic problems.
But Khrushchev during his entire career, from his humble beginning as a cattle herdsman in his native village of Kalinovka to mastery of the Kremlin, has shown a rare political genius which has enabled him to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
He emerged from the humiliating missile retreat from Cuba in October, 1962, only to be built up by Soviet propaganda as "a man of peace," who saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
KHRUSHCHIEV then contemptuously rejected Chinese charges of cowardice and surrender "to the American Paper Tiger," and with President Kennedy began to lay the foundation for an eventual understanding with the United States.
Earlier, in 1957, Khrushchev displayed another kind of political craftsmanship when virtually single-handed he defied the attempt of the Stalinist old guard to oust him from power.
"You did not elect me party leader, and I refuse to accept your decision," Khrushchev defiantly told the majority of the ruling presidium of the Communist party led by former premiers Molotov and Malenkov.
He then hastily summoned the central committee of the party which supported him fully and enabled him to turn the tables on his opponents who were reduced to political impotence.
Since then Khrushchev has consolidated his power with the appointment to all key offices of his loyal followers so that no man or institution appears able to challenge him.
STALIN was a virtual hermit who seldom dared to leave the safety of the Kremlin walls. Khruschev is a tireless globe-trotter who is taking personal risks that can only cause nightmares to his bodyguards.
Since 1955 when, hat in hand, he went to Yugoslavia to apologize to Tito for Stalin's "mistakes," Khrushchev has journeyed 59 times to 19 countries and has logged tens of thousands of miles barnstorming his own domain.
A few days before his birthday he was mending Communist fences in Hungary with Premier Janos Dakar,
advocating more and better goulash for the workers and lampooning Communist Chinese leaders for racism, war-mongering and enjoying "the smell of Stalin's corpse."
More arduous trips to the United Arab Republic, Scandinavia and possibly to India are scheduled this year as Khrushchev shows no signs of abatement in his faith in personal diplomacy and persuasive talents.
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Success — What Is It?
Have each of you asked yourselves just what is it you really want to accomplish once you graduate? Of course the natural answer is "to be successful." But what is this elusive word "success?"
Success is the teacher who enjoys imparting knowledge to those she instructs, success is the businessman that wants to be in a position financially to give his family the "good life" and does, success is the research scientist who thrills at the breakthrough he has striven to accomplish.
Success, then, is the progressive realization of pre-established worthy goals. To succeed according to definition one must have goals.
Sit down today and write down the man or woman you want to be 10 years from now in terms of:
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Make sure you have one desire that outshines the others. A conflict in goals creates a conflict within. Use goals to help you grow. You are what you think you are and you become what you earnestly concentrate on becoming.
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