RUSSIA PARTY TIME THE NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY WAS GOING FULL BLAST 
IN THE BANQUET HALL ATOP THE KREMLIN'S PALACE OF CONGRESSES . 
COMMUNIST BIGWIGS MINGLED WITH DIPLOMATS, MILITARY LEADERS AND STARS OF THE 
SOVIET CULTURAL ELITE . EVERYONE WAS IN HIGH SPIRITS, INCLUDING SOVIET 
EX-PRESIDENT KLIMENT VOROSHILOV, 82, WHO BROKE INTO AN IMPROMPTU JIG WHEN 
THE BAND PLAYED A SNAPPY RUSSIAN MELODY . GENIAL HOST NIKITA 
KHRUSHCHEV ROARED HIS HEARTY APPROVAL . IT WAS NO OCCASION FOR 
DISHARMONIOUS WORDS, SO WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR SPEECHES, NIKITA WAVED 
AWAY THE LATEST 20,000-WORD ATTACK ON HIS POLICIES BY RED CHINA 
. EVERY FAMILY HAS TROUBLES, KHRUSHCHEV DECLARED, GESTURING AMIABLY AT THE 
WESTERN DIPLOMATS IN THE CROWD . " YOU JUST GET MARRIED 
AND YOU WILL SOON NOTICE THAT DIFFERENCES DEVELOP . " AS 
FOR HIS DIFFERENCES WITH THE WEST, KHRUSHCHEV HOPED THAT 1963 WOULD 
SOLVE " URGENT PROBLEMS FRAUGHT WITH NEW CRISES, " A BIT 
OF DOUBLETALK ABOUT BERLIN THAT COULD FIT ANY EVENTUALITY . THE 
FIRST WOULD PROBABLY COME AT NEXT WEEK'S CONGRESS OF THE EAST 
GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY, WHICH KHRUSHCHEV WILL ATTEND . LAST WEEK, WHEN 
THE U.S . MOVED 1,500 INFANTRYMEN BY HIGHWAY INTO THE DIVIDED 
CITY IN A ROUTINE SHIFT OF REGIMENTS, THERE WAS NOT A 
MOMENT OF OBSTRUCTIONIST DELAY AT THE RUSSIAN CHECKPOINT . READY TO 
GREET THE FRESH TROOPS WAS A NEW U.S . WEST BERLIN 
COMMANDANT, MAJOR GENERAL JAMES H . POLK, 51 . SAID POLK, 
IN A MESSAGE TO WEST BERLINERS : " WE ARE HERE 
TO STAY . 