COMMUNISTS THE SPHINX ANYONE? THE MOST RELUCTANT RUBBERNECK IN EGYPT LAST WEEK 
WAS COMMUNIST CHINA'S PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI . GRANTED ONLY THREE SESSIONS 
WITH PRESIDENT NASSER DURING HIS WEEK'S SOJOURN IN CAIRO, CHOU WAS 
PROPELLED RELENTLESSLY THROUGH THE LIST OF VIP TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: AN AUTOMOBILE 
PLANT, A MUSEUM, EGYPT'S MILITARY ACADEMY, THE ASWAN DAM . WHEN 
HIS HOSTS INSISTED ON A CLOSE-UP INSPECTION OF THE SPHINX, CHOU 
ASKED PLAINTIVELY: "DO I HAVE TO GO? I'VE ALREADY SEEN IT 
FROM A DISTANCE ." THOUGH THE VISIT TO EGYPT WAS ONLY 
THE FIRST LEG OF HIS SCHEDULED TWO-MONTH SWING THROUGH AFRICA, THE 
ROUND OF SIGHTSEEING CLEARLY TIRED THE AILING, 67-YEAR-OLD CHOU . FOR 
THE FIRST TIME, WESTERNERS NOTICED THAT HE HAS ONLY PARTIAL USE 
OF HIS RIGHT ARM, WHICH WAS USUALLY CLUTCHED TIGHTLY OVER HIS 
STOMACH . AT ONE POINT, AFTER CLIMBING A FLIGHT OF STAIRS 
AT AN ASWAN POWER STATION, THE ASHEN-FACED PREMIER STAGGERED OFF INTO 
A CORNER AS IF HE WERE ABOUT TO FAINT . ONE 
OF TWO DOCTORS IN HIS ENTOURAGE HURRIED OVER AND APPEARED TO 
GIVE HIM A WHIFF OF SMELLING SALTS . AS CHOU RAISED 
HIS HEAD, BLOOD TRICKLED FROM HIS NOSE . "IT HAPPENS WHENEVER 
HE GETS TIRED," SHRUGGED ONE OF HIS AIDES . "IT IS 
NOT SERIOUS, BUT THAT IS WHY HE ALWAYS HAS A DOCTOR 
WITH HIM ." CHOU NONETHELESS HAD PLENTY OF ENERGY FOR SPEECHMAKING, 
HARPED REPEATEDLY ON THE PEKING VERSION OF MOSCOW'S WE-WILL-BURY-YOU REFRAIN . 
INDEED, TO HEAR CHOU, THE AFRO-ASIANS WILL BURY NOT ONLY THE 
WEST, BUT RUSSIA AS WELL . "THE ASIAN AND AFRICAN PEOPLES," 
HE PROCLAIMED, "THROUGH THEIR LABOR AND INTELLECT CREATED ILLUSTRIOUS CIVILIZATIONS WHICH 
WERE DEMOLISHED BY IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION AND TYRANNY . NOW THAT WE 
HAVE BROKEN THE IMPERIALISTIC SHACKLES, WE WILL BE ABLE TO WORK 
NEW MIRACLES ." FOR ALL HIS EAGERNESS TO WIN AFRICAN SUPPORT 
FOR PEKING'S SIDE IN THE SINO-SOVIET CONFLICT, HOWEVER, CHOU COULD OFFER 
LITTLE CASH TO THE UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES . IN SOME AREAS THAT 
THE CHINESE HAVE CULTIVATED, THEY MAY EVEN END BY MAKING MORE 
ENEMIES THAN FRIENDS . BY LENDING SOMALIA $20 MILLION TO BUY 
ARMS FOR ITS CAMPAIGN TO GRAB ADJACENT TERRITORY, PEKING HAS ANGERED 
NEIGHBORING KENYA, WHERE IT HAS ALSO SPENT HEAVILY TO WOO THE 
NEW NATION . IT MAY SUCCEED AT LEAST IN RAISING RUSSIA'S 
ANTE IN AFRICA AND ASIA . AT WEEK'S END, AS CHOU 
LEFT FOR ALGERIA, NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV WAS REPORTEDLY PLANNING HIS OWN SWING 
THROUGH AFRICA . BEFORE VISITING CAIRO NEXT SPRING, HE MAY ALSO 
JUNKET TO INDIA AND NEPAL ON CHOU'S BACK DOORSTEP . THEN 
IT WILL BE NIKITA'S TURN TO TELL WHO WILL BURY WHOM 
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