COMMUNISTS " GET OUT OF HERE " AND SO THE CHINESE WENT 
HOME . AT THE AIRPORT, WHEN A WESTERN CORRESPONDENT ASKED TENG 
HSIAO-PING, THE CHIEF OF PEKING'S DEPARTING DELEGATION, HOW THE TALKS HAD 
GONE, HE REPLIED, " VERY GOOD . " OBVIOUSLY, THE OPPOSITE 
WAS TRUE . DURING THEIR LAST WEEK IN MOSCOW, WHILE WESTERN 
NEGOTIATIORS WERE FETED AND FLATTERED, A KIND OF GREAT WALL SURROUNDED 
THE UNWELCOME VISITORS FROM PEKING . FROM THEIR ISOLATED COMPOUND ON 
MOSCOW'S LENIN HILLS, THE RED CHINESE DELEGATES VENTURED OUT ONLY IN 
CURTAINED BLACK CHAIKA LIMOUSINES FOR THE SHORT DRIVE TO PEKING'S EMBASSY 
; ON ALTERNATE DAYS THEY MET WITH A SOVIET DELEGATION, OBVIOUSLY 
TO NO EFFECT . KHRUSHCHEV POINTEDLY STAYED AWAY FROM THE MEETINGS, 
ALTHOUGH HE WAS OTHERWISE ACTIVE IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND SOCIAL WHIRL 
. THE MOSCOW FILM FESTIVAL PROVIDED AN EXCUSE FOR LOTS OF 
PARTIES, AT WHICH WESTERN ENVOYS AND SOVIET FUNCTIONARIES MIXED AMIABLY WITH 
SUCH MOVIE STARS AS SHELLY WINTERS, SUSAN STRASBERG, YVES MONTAND AND 
SIMONE SIGNORET . AT WEEK'S END KHRUSHCHEV FINALLY TURNED TO HIS 
OTHER GUESTS AND, IN A RELATIVELY GRACIOUS GESTURE, TOSSED THE RED 
CHINESE A FAREWELL DINNER . ALTHOUGH DESCRIBED AS " FRIENDLY, " 
THE MEAL COULD HAVE PRODUCED LITTLE BEYOND DYSPEPSIA, FOR KHRUSHCHEV HAD 
SPOILED THE TABLE TALK IN ADVANCE, DELIVERING AN ORATORICAL BLAST AT 
PEKING THAT IN EFFECT DECLARED POLITICAL WAR ON THE CHINESE . 
THE CHALLENGE . AT A MASSIVE RALLY OF PARTY BUREAUCRATS AND 
PROPAGANDISTS IN THE KREMLIN'S PALACE OF THE CONGRESSES, KHRUSHCHEV SPOKE WITH 
SUCH APOPLECTIC VEHEMENCE THAT AT ONE POINT HE GROPED FOR WORDS 
AND RHETORICALLY BEGGED THE AUDIENCE : " HELP ME OUT . 
" BUT HE DIDN'T NEED MUCH HELP . ANGRILY DEFENDING HIS 
DESTALINIZATION DRIVE AGAINST PEKING'S ATTACKS, HE DEMANDED : " WHAT DO 
THEY WANT ? TO FRIGHTEN OUR PEOPLE, TO BRING BACK THE 
DAYS WHEN A MAN WENT TO HIS JOB AND DID NOT 
KNOW WHETHER HE WOULD SEE HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN AGAIN ? 
" DROPPING HIS VOICE TO A DRAMATIC WHISPER, KHRUSHCHEV SAID THAT 
LETTERS TO HIM FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY EXPRESSED GRATITUDE FOR 
ENDING THE STALINIST TERROR . THEN HE ADDED :. " IF 
STALIN HAD DIED TEN YEARS EARLIER, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN 
BETTER . " THE SOVIET BOSS WAS EQUALLY CONTEMPTUOUS ON THE 
SUBJECT OF PEKING'S WARMONGERING FOREIGN POLICY . " THEY SAY ONE 
SHOULD START A REVOLUTION, A WAR, " HE SHOUTED, " AND 
ON THE CORPSES AND THE RUINS, A MORE PROSPEROUS SOCIETY WILL 
BE CREATED . AND WHO WOULD REMAIN IN THIS PROSPEROUS SOCIETY 
? WOULDN'T THE LIVING ENVY THE DEAD ? " DIRECTLY ACCUSING 
THE CHINESE OF TRYING TO UNSEAT HIM, KHRUSHCHEV DARED PEKING TO 
TAKE ITS CASE TO THE SOVIET PEOPLE : " I DECLARE 
TO THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO OVERTHROW US I CHALLENGE YOU, 
COMRADES LET'S PICK OUT ANY PLANT OR COLLECTIVE FARM . YOU 
PRESENT YOUR PROGRAM AND WE WILL PRESENT OURS . YOU WON'T 
NEED ARMOR OR A PILLOW FOR PROTECTION . OUR PEOPLE ARE 
POLITE . THEY'LL LISTEN AND SAY : " GET OUT OF 
HERE . / BOURGEOIS COMRADES . ALMOST AS VEHEMENT WAS A 
19,000-WORD OPEN LETTER FROM THE KREMLIN THAT CALLED THE CHINESE LIARS, 
HYPOCRITES AND COWARDS . MOSCOW DISMISSED THE RED CHINESE CLAIM TO 
PROLETARIAN PURITY AND ACCUSED THEM OF TRYING TO GOAD RUSSIA INTO 
WAR WITH THE U.S . PRINTED IN PRAVDA, THE SOVIET COUNTERATTACK 
WAS ADDRESSED TO COMMUNIST CADRES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IT SERVED 
NOTICE THAT MOSCOW WOULD PUSH ITS PLATFORM BEFORE ALL 81 " 
FRATERNAL " PARTIES AT ALL COSTS . AS THE SOVIETS THEMSELVES 
ANGRILY POINTED OUT, PEKING WAS ACTIVELY " ORGANIZING AND SUPPORTING BANDS 
OF RENEGADE " REDS IN SEVEN NATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE 
SINO-SOVIET QUARREL HAS SHARPLY DIVIDED LOCAL COMMUNIST PARTIES, SPLITTING RACE FROM 
RACE AND CONTINENT FROM CONTINENT . IN EUROPE THE QUARREL IS 
NOISIEST AMONG THE ITALIAN COMRADES . NOWHERE DOES THE COMMUNIST PARTY 
SEEM MORE BOURGEOIS ; FOR JUST THAT REASON, NOWHERE IN EUROPE 
HAS PEKING FOUND MORE SUPPORTERS FOR ITS CREDO OF ALL-OUT REVOLUTION 
. IN PADUA A GROUP OF COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS, EXPELLED FOR 
FAVORING PEKING, PUBLISHED A PAMPHLET DENOUNCING RED BUREAUCRATS WHO LIVED THE 
SWEET LIFE, COMPLETE WITH " WIVES AND MISTRESSES IN JEWELS AND 
FURS . " SOME 30,000 ITALIAN REDS, MANY OF THEM SONS 
OF PROMINENT COMMUNISTS, HAVE FORMED ABOUT 20 CHAPTERS OF THE CHINESE-ITALIAN 
FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY . THE REBELS ARE BACKED BY FUNDS BELIEVED TO 
BE CHANNELED THROUGH THE ALBANIAN LEGATION IN ROME ; THEY CIRCULATE 
PROPAGANDA MATERIAL PREPARED BY RED CHINESE SPECIALISTS OPERATING FROM A FANCY 
VILLA IN BERN, SWITZERLAND . LAST WEEK COMMUNIST PARTY VICE SECRETARY 
LUIGI LONGO RUSHED TO MILAN TO PUT DOWN A REBELLION OF 
SINOPHILES, AND EXPLAINED THAT BY APPEARING MODERATE, ITALIAN REDS HAVE PROSPERED 
AT THE POLLS . AS HE EMERGED FROM THE MEETING, LONGO 
DISCOVERED THE SLOGANS " VIVA STALIN, " / VIVA MAO " 
PAINTED ON NEARBY WALLS . AIRMAIL WAR . IN AFRICA AND 
ASIA THE SPLIT IS INCREASINGLY RACIAL . THE SOVIETS ARE COMPLAINING 
THAT AT THE RECENT ASIAN-AFRICAN SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE IN TANGANYIKA, A RED 
CHINESE OFFICIAL TOLD THE MOSCOW DELEGATION : " THE WHITES HAVE 
NOTHING TO DO HERE . " SUCH A BLATANT RACIST LINE, 
ARGUES MOSCOW, IS PURSUED IN THE UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS AT RUSSIA'S EXPENSE 
; IT " IMPLANTS THE SNEAKY IDEA THAT THE PEOPLES OF 
SOME REGIONS ARE MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN OTHERS . " INDIA'S COMMUNIST 
MOVEMENT HAS BEEN DEEPLY DIVIDED, BUT LAST WEEK FORMALLY LINED UP 
WITH KHRUSHCHEV, JUST AS AN INDIAN GOVERNMENT PURCHASING COMMISSION ARRIVED IN 
MOSCOW SHOPPING FOR ARMS TO BE USED IN DEFENSE AGAINST THE 
RED CHINESE . IN JAPAN, MOST OF WHOSE COMMUNISTS FAVOR RED 
CHINA FOR ETHNIC REASONS, THE STRUGGLE HAS BECOME PRETTY PETTY, RESULTING 
IN AN AIRMAIL CIRCULATION WAR . SOON AFTER PRAVDA BEGAN TO 
ARRIVE IN TOKYO BY AIR, PEKING'S PEOPLE'S DAILY DROPPED ITS SEAMAIL 
DELIVERY, WHICH USED TO TAKE A MONTH, AND ALSO TOOK TO 
THE AIR AT NO INCREASE IN POSTAL RATES TO SUBSCRIBERS . 
THE NIGHTMARE . THOUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF MOST LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNIST 
PARTIES IS FIRMLY PRO-MOSCOW, THE RANK AND FILE LEAN TOWARD PEKING 
. REDS IN BRAZIL HAVE SPLIT INTO THREE RIVAL SECTS . 
ONE OF URUGUAY'S TOP REDS WAS RECENTLY EXPELLED FOR HIS RED 
CHINESE SYMPATHIES ; HOWEVER, THE PARTY NEWSPAPER STILL ACCEPTS PAID ANNOUNCEMENTS 
FROM PEKING PROPAGANDISTS . AS FOR THE BEARD, FIDEL'S REVOLUTIONARY SYMPATHIES 
LIE WITH MAO, BUT HE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO BITE NIKITA'S 
HAND, AND LAST WEEK HE DUTIFULLY ENDORSED THE MOSCOW LINE . 
STILL, RED CHINA HAS NOT GIVEN UP HOPE OF CONVERTING CASTRO 
. CUBA IS ONE OF THE FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD 
WHERE BOTH CHINESE AND RUSSIAN TECHNICIANS REMAIN AT WORK . THIS 
MONTH PEKING HAPPILY PROCLAIMED THAT ITS EXPERTS HAVE HELPED THE CUBANS 
TO RAISE 25,000 PEKING DUCKS . THESE SINO-SOVIET DUELS AROUND THE 
WORLD, AS MUCH AS THE FRUITLESS TALKS IN MOSCOW, HAVE SHATTERED 
ANY PROSPECT OF EARLY RECONCILIATION . NOW THAT THE MOSCOW MEETING 
HAS COLLAPSED, BOTH SIDES IN EFFECT CONCEDE THAT WHAT BEGAN AS 
A CHARADE OF UNITY HAS BECOME A COMMUNIST NIGHTMARE . 