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o 0 o 16 SIBUft, Mdford, waw Thuniiy, July 34, 193S - KferiisSieliev's Rise to Power Told Editor's otc: Th following (9ticle. (rdfegtl v United Press T5iterrtiraal. givei the arkgrotrad of Khrushchev, evict pa- S Ifctsi International O tjflong, long rftsd from th foo little thatched roof c? Kalinovka, near Sunjy inthe Ukraine, to the throve room of tfte Kremlin jid th center of the world stage. "e, 9s Sdkita Khrushchev, boss of 11 th ftussias and the satellites beyond, regards the eminence and power he has achieved the one-time bare foot boy ho tended the few pigs, goSts and cows of his coal miner father he shows no signs of fatigue. Once again, the world waits upon his word and won ders: Peace or war? Thousand of words have been written about "this chunky, short (five foot five) physically5 strong man who walked the tricky, murderous road to the top in Soviet Russia. Much of what has been written has been contra dictory as contradictory as the man himsel. When first he came to pow er in gradual stages after the death of Stalin in 1953, many astute observers of the Rus sian scene regarded him as a buffoon, a talky, boastful, tactless and mediocre figure who was not long for the helm. A. Tough Indiridual What the world overlooked at first was the Khrushchev toughness, the ability to profit from error so he rarely made the same mistake twice, and the fierce competitive shrewd ness that had carried him suc cessfully through the jungle of Russian Communist politics while other, seemingly strong er men, fell. Biographers of Khrushchev credit much, of his staying power to the natural peasant endurance that came to him by birth. At 64 he was born in April, 1894 he gives off an aura of strength and sure ness that some interviewers have described as frightening, particularly when he is angry. He can also, as many Kremlin' party goers have learned, be disarmingly charming. What sort of man is Khru shchev really? The answers still are not clear. Most stud ies of the man dwell on his outward contradictions, then go into his past to explain him. As a world figure, Khrush chev's history is relatively short. Until the early 1950s his name was associated vaguely in the world outside Russia with an administrative mistake in Russia's agricult ural program, and efforts to put down unrest in the Uk raine. Relentless Climb When Stalin died in March, 1953, Western attention cen tered on the names of Pre mier Georgi Malenkov, Vya cheslav M. Molotov, Lavrenti Beria. They seemed the ruling triumvirate. But nine days af- tef Stalin's death Malenkov stepped down from his top post in the Communist party and Khrushchev stepped up as first secretary of the all powerful Central Committee - It was not until the follow ing September that the world learned of the power shift, but from that time Khrush chev's emergence has been unmistakable as he climbed to, or took, ever greater pow er, and the once fearsome names dropped off one by one Beria executed, Malenkov unseated and downgraded, Molotov exiled. Khrushchev, though little known elsewhere, actually rose to high post under Stalin earlier than Malenkov and former Premier Nikolai Bui- r v rJ shoes v J top y t i, m. J fea! 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Handled Ukraine Purge In the capital, the vigorous young peasant attracted polit ical attention and in the early 1930s rose to party boss in the Moscow province. He was in Moscow during the bloody Stalin purges, but on the right list. In 1938 he made it to the Politburo, as a non-voting member. That same year Khrushchev's career got its biggest1 boost when he was sent to the Ukraine and given a post that made him, in ef fect, Stalin's top deputy. It's been said Stalin person ally picked Khrushchev for the job of erasing Ukrainian resistance to regimentation, and he did the job thoroughly Some 3,000 party officials, it has been recorded, were elim inated in the Khrushchev cleanup sent to slave labor camps, or worse. After the war Khrushchev helped restore the Ukraine to "order" a job he did well enough to be summoned back to Moscow in 1949 and placed on the Central Committee sec retariat. Two years, later he advocated a tough, new farm policy involving resettlement and reconstitution of the col lectives. The program was not considered a success and more recently the Khrushchev tack on agriculture has been a softer one, granting the far mers a greater slice of their earnings, and more voice in their activities. Then, in the post-Stalin era, came the maneuverings that landed Khrushchev in the seat of the mighty the famous 20th Party Conference and denunciation of Stalin, the packing of the Central com mittee with his supporters, and the 'gradual elimination of Molotov and other major rivals. Engineers, AGC Continue Meetings Portland (UPD Another meeting between striking Op erating Engineers and Associ ated General Contractors was set for today as efforts- con tinued to halt the Oregon southwest Washington con struction strike. The two sides met together with Federal Mediator LeRoy Smith Wednesday for the fifth time. The Teamsters union also is on strike against AGC. 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