Highest-ranking Soviet official ever to visit Japan, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was all smiles under his toothbrush mustache. When he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week, he exuded the folksy, traveling-salesman style that he and his proverb-prattling boss Nikita Khrushchev have made famous. "You have a saying that goes, 'A good neighbor is better than a distant relative,' " he told his hosts. "We live right next door to each other, and our relations should be those of good neighbors." Some 3,000 Japanese leftists waved red flags in approval, while...
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