COMMUNISTS NIKITA & THE OTHER CHEEK AS PEKING'S PEOPLE'S CONGRESS MET IN 
SECRET TO HEAR THE LATEST WORD ON THE STATUS OF THE 
SINO-SOVIET FEUD, AMONG OTHER TOPICS, COMMUNIST CHINA CUT LOOSE WITH ONE 
OF ITS MOST SCATHING PERSONAL ATTACKS TO DATE ON NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV 
. IN SIMULTANEOUS ARTICLES, RED FLAG AND PEOPLE'S DAILY ACCUSED HIM 
OF PARALYZING THE RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES, OF KOWTOWING TO THE CAPITALISTS 
AND OF SOUNDING TOO HOLY BY FAR . " IT IS 
CLEAR, " SAID THE CHINESE, THAT " IN SPITE OF KHRUSHCHEV'S 
BIBLE-READING AND PSALMSINGING, U.S . IMPERIALISTS HAVE NOT BECOME BEAUTIFUL ANGELS 
. THEY HAVE NOT TURNED INTO COMPASSIONATE BUDDHAS IN SPITE OF 
HIS PRAYERS AND INCENSEBURNING . / IN SHORT, SAID RED CHINA, 
KHRUSHCHEV IS " A LAUGHING STOCK . " THE BLAST MAY 
WELL OPEN A NEW RIFT BETWEEN MOSCOW AND PEKING, EVEN THOUGH 
THE KREMLIN HAS BEEN RELATIVELY RESTRAINED IN RECENT WEEKS . FOR 
AS KHRUSHCHEV ONCE ASSERTED : " THERE IS MUCH IN CHRIST 
THAT IS COMMON WITH US COMMUNISTS . BUT I CANNOT AGREE 
WITH HIM WHEN HE SAYS THAT WHEN YOU ARE HIT ON 
THE RIGHT CHEEK, TURN THE LEFT CHEEK . IF I AM 
HIT ON THE LEFT CHEEK, I HIT BACK ON THE RIGHT 
CHEEK SO HARD THAT HIS HEAD MIGHT FALL OFF . / 
