COMMUNISTS GETTING TOGETHER ? " DESPISE THE ENEMY STRATEGICALLY, " WROTE MAO 
TSE-TUNG IN HIS HANDBOOK FOR REVOLUTIONARIES, " BUT TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY 
TACTICALLY . " LAST WEEK, DRAWING A BEAD ON HIS ENEMY 
IN THE KREMLIN, MAO DID BOTH . HE MADE HIS TACTICAL 
POINT BY ACCEPTING MOSCOW'S CALL FOR BILATERIAL NEGOTIATIONS OVER THE SINO-SOVIET 
RIFT AND INVITING NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV TO PEKING . " THE COMMUNIST 
MOVEMENT HAS REACHED A CRITICAL JUNCTURE . THE TIME HAS COME 
WHEN DIFFERENCES HAVE TO BE SETTLED, " DECLARED THE RED CHINESE, 
PROPOSING THAT RUSSIA'S PREMIER STOP OFF IN PEKING ON THE WAY 
TO CAMBODIA, WHERE A STATE VISIT BY KHRUSHCHEV HAS BEEN DISCUSSED 
FOR SOME TIME . ALTERNATIVELY, SUGGESTED MAO, A RED CHINESE DELEGATION 
COULD GO TO MOSCOW TO DISCUSS THE SQUABBLE . BUT THE 
HAUGHTY, PATRONIZING TONE OF THE MESSAGE, OFFERING TO MEET THE SOVIETS 
ONLY " ON THE BASIS OF FULL EQUALITY, " AND REPEATING 
THE OLD DEMANDS FOR A ONE-WAY COMPROMISE, WOULD MAKE IT TOUGH 
FOR RUSSIA TO ACCEPT . EVEN IN THE EVENT OF A 
MEETING, SAID ONE HONG KONG EXPERT, " WE CAN EXPECT LITTLE 
BUT A VERBAL AGREEMENT WHICH WILL SOON BREAK DOWN . / 
