COMMUNISTS ADVICE FROM THE HOST WINDING UP HIS 15-DAY STATE VISIT TO 
YUGOSLAVIA LAST WEEK, NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV FOUND HIMSELF PLAYING AN UNUSUAL ROLE 
THAT OF LISTENER . EVIDENTLY HE HOPED TO OFFSET THE RUSSIAN 
SPLIT WITH RED CHINA BY GETTING CLOSER TO TITO, WITH WHOM 
RELATIONS EVER SINCE 1955 HAVE ALTERNATED BETWEEN FAIRLY WARM AND FAIRLY 
CHILLY . KHRUSHCHEV NOT ONLY SWALLOWED TITO'S DETERMINATION TO MAINTAIN HIS 
STATUS AS A COMMUNIST " INDEPENDENT, " BUT IN A FOUR-DAY 
SESSION AT THE ISLAND RETREAT OF BRIONI PATIENTLY LISTENED TO HIS 
HOST'S ADVICE ON HOW TO OUTBID THE CHINESE IN THE STRUGGLE 
FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF THE RED WORLD . RED SUMMIT . 
ACCORDING TO PROBABLY DELIBERATE CONFERENCE LEAKS, TITO TOLD KHRUSHCHEV THAT RUSSIA 
MUST PLAY UP TO THE EMERGING AFRO-ASIAN NATIONS TO HALT INCREASING 
CHINESE PENETRATION . ADDED TITO : AS LONG AS CHINA IS 
NOT A MEMBER OF THE U.N . (BOTH RUSSIA AND YUGOSLAVIA 
FAVOR PEKING'S ADMISSION, BUT WITH WANING ENTHUSIASM), MOSCOW COULD MAKE HEADWAY 
BY SUPPORTING THE AFRO-ASIAN DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE U.N . 
SECURITY AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCILS . TITO ALSO SAID THAT 
RUSSIA IS BEING TOO DOCTRINAIRE IN WRITING OFF AFRO-ASIAN COUNTRIES SUCH 
AS SYRIA, ALGERIA, EGYPT AND IRAQ, WHICH HAVE OUTLAWED LOCAL COMMUNIST 
PARTIES . SINCE MOST OF THE EMERGING STATES ARE ADOPTING ONE-PARTY 
SOCIALIST GOVERNMENTS ANYWAY, SAID TITO, THE SOVIETS SHOULD BACK THEM FOR 
THE TIME BEING, WORRY ABOUT PUSHING COMMUNISM LATER . TITO AND 
KHRUSHCHEV AGREED TO HOLD AN ANTI-CHINESE COMMUNIST SUMMIT CONFERENCE SOON, BOTH 
TO CONSOLIDATE RUSSIA'S POSITION IN THE CONFLICT WITH CHINA AND TO 
STATE FORMALLY THAT CHINESE WARMONGERING IS FAR MORE HARMFUL TO WORLD 
COMMUNISM THAN YUGOSLAVIA'S " REVISIONISM . " BUT TITO AND HIS 
GUEST SEEMED TO SHY AWAY FROM MUCH CLOSER RELATIONS . TITO 
IGNORED KHRUSHCHEV'S APPARENT DESIRE TO ADDRESS THE YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT, AND RUSSIA 
COLD-SHOULDERED YUGOSLAVIA'S REQUEST FOR MASSIVE ECONOMIC AID, GRANTED BELGRADE ONLY OBSERVER 
STATUS IN COMECON, THE SATELLITES' MORE OR LESS COMMON MARKET . 
" DIFFERENCES STILL EXIST BETWEEN US ON PARTY MATTERS, " SAID 
ONE YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL . " IF WE PRESS FOR CLOSER CONTACTS, 
AN OPEN QUARREL MIGHT DEVELOP . " ON TO CUBA . 
AT A JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH TITO, KHRUSHCHEV ANNOUNCED THAT HE 
IS NOT COMING TO THE U.N . GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW 
YORK THIS MONTH BUT IS GOING TO CUBA INSTEAD, ALSO HINTED 
THAT HE MIGHT BE AVAILABLE FOR A VISIT TO EGYPT . 
THEN HE GAVE THE PRESS A SAMPLE OF HIS FAMOUS EARTHINESS 
. WHEN A QUESTIONER SOUGHT TO BRING OUT DISCORD BETWEEN RUSSIA 
AND YUGOSLAVIA BY ASKING HIM TO COMPARE LIVING STANDARDS IN THE 
TWO COUNTRIES (HIGHER IN YUGOSLAVIA), KHRUSHCHEV GOT ANGRY . " WHY 
ARE YOU TRYING TO SNIFF A SMELL FROM THE RECTUM ? 
" HE SAID . " THIS IS NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 
PART OF THE BODY . " ANYWAY, KHRUSHCHEV ADDED BLISSFULLY, SOVIET 
RELATIONS WITH YUGOSLAVIA ARE " ETERNAL . / 