Tuesday, April 14, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Khrushchev's Good Health Relieves Diplomats
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Most diplomats here expressed relief today that the report of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's death was untrue.
Tass, the Soviet news agency, published denials of the false report shortly after midnight and then reported that Khrushchev met again this morning with visiting Polish Communist leaders. The Soviet press ignored the death rumor.
broken off.
Diplomats here and in Western European capitals were relieved because they feared Khrushchev's successor, whoever he might be, might be worse for the West.
BUT DURING THAT time, it flashed around the world, causing hundreds of telephone calls to newspapers and broadcast stations and a rush of diplomatic activity.
THEY SAID any change of leadership might put a halt to the East-West thaw begun last summer with the nuclear test ban treaty. Much of the Sino-Soviet dispute centers on
Many were routed out of bed by their foreign offices after midnight to cheek the report. By that time, it had been established that Khrushchev, who will be 70 Friday, was last seen "in full health" at a Kremlin reception and that the report, in the words of the TASS news agency director, Dmitri P. Goryunov. "It is just a silly rumor."
The report, by the West German news agency DPA, was out only five minutes last night before it was ordered held up for checking by the agency's editors and then withdrawn.
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oken off. "Apparently he misunderstood the explanation given in Russian," DPA said. The Japanese correspondent
Peking's dislike of Khrushchev's personal policies, and a successor might be more successful in healing that breach, they said.
Japanese journalist in Moscow may have started the death rumor when he asked the TASS news office why the text of Khrushchev's speech at the Kremlin reception had been
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