RUSSIA: Off for a Rest?

The Russian Foreign Office has assured diplomats that Premier Nikolai Bulganin and First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev are taking a needed rest from their official duties this month at their Black Sea villas. But out of Warsaw last week came reports of a speech Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan recently made to Moscow University activists. One of the party's severest disciplinary judgments, "condemnation with a warning," has been pronounced upon Bulganin, said Mikoyan, for the Premier's vacillating stand last June, when, at the request of the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich "anti-party"' group, he chaired a meeting of the Presidium instead of turning...

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