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KferiisSieliev's Rise to Power Told
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(9ticle. (rdfegtl v United Press
T5iterrtiraal. givei the arkgrotrad
of Khrushchev, evict
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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-
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ganin, though he was a jun
ior in the hierarchy to Molo
tov. He was 23 at the time
of the Bolshevik revolution
but it was not until 1918, a
year later, that he joined the
Bolsheviks and fought in the
civil war. Even then, he ap
pears not to have made up
his mind to remain active in
the party, for he returned to
the Ukraine, went back to
coal mining and started at
night school, in technical sub
jects. He started taking party
posts, finally getting to Mos
cow as a student at the Stal
in Industrial Academy.
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.
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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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CARRYING submachine
gun to office, Gen. Abdel
Kassem, premier of . n e w
Iraq revolutionary govern
ment, is ready for trouble.
Do you know what
Frankenstein said to
his teenage son,
"Frankie" (he always
calls him Frankie)?
No you can't go to
The Craterian to see
"THE FLY"! Ifs too
scarey even for you
it might scare the
bolt out of your
head!
Coos Bay Group Endorses Highway
Coos Bay The Coos Bay
Port commission has announc
ed it will endorse improve
ment of Highway 42 as a first
class highway from Myrtle
Point i to near Winston on
Highway 99.
The action presents a "unit
ed front" in Coos county, on
an east-west highway for the
first time. The highway com
mission previously announced
it could not do anything about
Highway 42 because the resi
dents of Coos county were
not united in their efforts.
Earlier the county Chamber
of Commerce endorsed High
way 42 improvements as the
priority road need of Coos
county. The Chamber of Com
merce said Highway 42 was
the tmly logical terminus for
the "Winnemucca to the Sea"
highway.
The "Winnemucca to the
Sea" highway would extend
from the Oregon coast east
ward to connect with High
way 40 at Winnemucca, Nev.,
with a probable route through
Josephine and Jackson coun
ties in southern Oregon.
State Police Raid
Eastern Oregon Games
Ontario (UPD State po
lice, armed with 20 warrants,
raided nine business estab
lishments in Vale, Nyssa and
Ontario Wednesday night and
confiscated a number of pin
ball machines and broke up
three card games.
Sgt. Russell Haynes said ev
idence had been gathered for
the raid 'through undercover
work during the early part
of the month.
The United Kingdom has
22 universities, 16 in England,
four in Scotland,' and the Uni
versity of Wales and the Uni
versity of Belfast.
ICEBREAKER PLANNED
Washington (UPD The Sen
ate Commerce Committee ap
proved a bill Wednesday to
authorize construction of a
nuclear-powered icebreaker to
patrol the Arctic. The ship is
expected to cost between $30
and $60 million.
Attempted Assault
Charges Dismissed
Portland (UPD Circuit
Judge Virgil T. Langtry
Wednesday threw out of court
charges of attempted assault
against five teen-age boys who
were picked up last week af
ter a man complained they
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