European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Nikulla Khz Vitchev walked into 2 the ebullient Little Man who Puih cd the world a bit closer to peace with coexistence and then nudged it Back to the nuclear Brink with missiles in Cuba was deposed in mid october by the Kremlin Nikulla Scrogey Cvach passed into political obscurity in what from All outward one of to smoothest Power shifts in the Stormy history of Leonid a once Lac factory manager who had been groomed As Khrushchev heir became the communist parly first the most powerful Post in the soviet Alexel a economics donned Khrushchev other the premiership of the user who Rote from the Don bae coalfields to carry stains Hatchet in us bloody Ukraine purges of the ruled 11 Yonari and managed to survive Kremlin Power struggles in 1w3 and he Wai retired at Hij own Bui it quickly became apparent that he was pushed reasons Given for Haj departure were allures in foreign headed by the Cuba mis Sile crisis russian agricultural including the blowing under of the thin Rugin lands to Sou mismanaging Industry pushing the cult of personality and Long hit of minor trans what the shift meant in real terms remained to be but the new Leaden gave repeated assurances that Khrushchev foreign and Domestic policies would continuing search for rapprochement with the West and More bread in the baskets at some observers predicted the new so Viet chiefs would Patch the chasm Al rift with red and the mid no vember arrival of chinese Premier Chou Enlal in Moscow appeared to justify this but chivas Price for reconciliation was Loo virulent ant chinese at tacks were renewed in pravda and plans were announced for rescheduling in March a meeting of communist parties that might drum the chinese communists out of the world 3 civil rights leaders had predicted a hot and it was with beatings and bomb Ings in the South and riots in the the negro fight for Equality passed a major hurdle july 2 when the strongest civil rights Bill since reconstruction was it passed the House 11 and the Senate june after a 75day Fili Buster by Southern the semite Cut off debate by invoking the closure Rule on june 10 in an the deaths of three civil rights ers marred u Mississippi voter registration drive by College the indies of two Whites and a who had been viciously beaten and were found 4 near 44 Days after hey the Fri on 4 arrested 21 men in connection with the including Neshoba county sheriff Lawrence Rulney and his in a bizarre turn of commissioner Esther Carter dismissed he the Justice department said it would take its Case to a Federal grand extremists in the deep South continued to answer integration efforts with clubs and several deaths were and More than is negro churches were burned or bombed Dur ing the in the negro rioting broke out in several including new Yorks but the Fri termed the out bursts the the the demonstrations made the big but quiet under the new the civil rights movement chipped away at barriers in Public Educa voting and in the North and president Johmson signed civil governmental Eon Quilon hampered Vietnam 4 political upheaval that some times approached anarchy marked the year in a year in which the Rice Paddy War increased in the year opened with a Gen Ngu yen Khuynh attempting to Shore up his Shirky military regime against the snip ing of generals and Sutof Power but widespread rioting which broke out 19 forced him to step Buddhist Catholic communal coups and threatened coups and a it hair tribal rebellion kept the country in u constant upheaval As the govern ment awed through several Power Trun Van Huong emerged As pre Mier with Khanh As military despite the and swing to civilian the buddhists still were not two incidents involving destroy Erin the Tonkin Gulf were Sharp re minders hat the struggle for Southeast Asia could mushroom quickly Carrier based 7th Fleet aircraft attacked North vietnamese Shore installations on 45 in retaliation to it boat attacks on the Maddox and Turner it presumably North also attacked the Morton and Richard towards on in the War Viet Cong Lorclei for the first time began using conventional rather than the United states continued to increase its military and economic particularly after the communist raid on Bien Iloa air in which five b57s were destroyed and 22 air Craft 0 Maxwell Taylor replaced Henry Cabot ledge As ambassador in South Vietnam and Gen William West Moreland succeeded retiring Gen Paul Harkins As military com the malignancy continued to spread further in strategic Southeast relations approached the breaking Point at year end factional fighting was renewed in and Indonesia showed no setup in its crush Malaysia Campaign As 1964 Drew to a american deaths in Vietnam approached 290 since 12 the stars and stripes of
