SOVIET ADVANCES KEY OUTPUT GOALS

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Pvie%w of $evon.-Year Plan
Sets '65 Targets Initially
'Ordered for 1972
By MAX FRANKEL
Special to The New York Times.
MOSCOW, Oct. 20-The So-
viet Union's new Seven-Year
Plan will call on heavy Indus-
try to approach by 1965 a num-
ber of production goals original-
ly set for 1972.
A few sample statistics pub-
lished here recently bear out
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's
statement last week. that the
world will be amazed. when it
reads the new plan. The Soviet
people, too, arse likely to be sur-
prised by the goals, which will
require a' maximum national
effort in the years 1959 to !965.
'The seven-year' targets for t
the production of steet il'n'? o
and rtb''?a', will b9, 1osa to the
tentative' 1wgoals that 'Mr.
Khrushchev, _ o.u ned last No-
vember. Similar speed-ups of
the schedules for coal, electric
power and petroleum produc-
tion are indicated, aTthoujhthe
figures are yet to be announced.
Large investments Due
Large-scale capital invest-
ments and industrial construc.
tion will be required to realize
the goals. The seven-year tar-,
get for cement output, an-'
nounced earlier this summer,
also is close to Mr. Khrushchev's
1972 figure and suggests ambi-
tious building plans.
Premier Khrushchev was re-
ported back in Moscow today
from a two-month leave on
which he combined work and
vise the,final {version of the
t
be
plan,' which is expected to
an waS'1~isiece whore
otld will be amazed at the
prospects of development of the
Socialist economy."
plan Required Revision
In View of the figures ,that
the Prenifer announced as fif-
teen-year' targets a year ago,
the is 'pr'obably 'right. As he
Ispoke last year at the fortieth
anniversary of` the Bolshevik
I#~ volui on economic planners
were just eginnfng' to shape
the 1 15l) 65 plan: 7`lte. plan has
recjtledexterisive adjustments,
'even-In recent weeks, to take 11 account of "experience gained in
the new decentralized system
of industrial managdmetit.
?re iaration of the plan is the
ob of ate huge ' State~IiTa ining
Commit ee. headed by losif I.
K~izTfilp, who isalso a 17bptity
rcii4er is staff has been
yrest ing with Me;. nment
r nice the ovdi'ifrient an-
,{pL,Ty Se teir+`"`~er 1957,
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SOYIEfi ADVANCES
KEY OUTPUT GOALS
iGontinued From Page 1, Col. 6
that it was scrapping the Five-
Year Plan of 1956-60
The job has been difficult be-
cause a plan envisages produc-
tion assignments for every plant
and farm' and, by extension, for
every worker. It must provide
not only for existing industry
but for expansion. It must reck-
on with all related needs, like
manpower and resources.
It must even envision what
!high schools and teachers will
be needed when today's , first-
,graders are graduated from
elementary schools seven years
khence. As one official here has
observed, "Imagine seven years
ago trying to plan for our coun
try today,"
Despite these difficulties So
viet planners apparently are de
termined to make the plan o.e
of extraordinary ambition. The
key figures pointing to the
trend were'disclosed last. week
by Viktor V. Grishin, chief of
the Soviet trade unions, in a
speech to the eleventh plenary
meeting of the Central Trade
Unions Council.
He gave the following goals
for 1965:
Steel-91,000,000 metric tons,
a' 68 per cent increase over the
1958 output expected on the
basis of third-quarter results.
Premier Khrushchev'stentative
steel goal for 1972 was 100,000,-
000 or 120,000,000 tons.
Iron ore-246,000,000 or 247,-
000,000 tons, an indicated 179
per cent increase over this year
and comparable to the original
1972 target of -250,000,000 or
300,000,000 tons.
Pig iron-70,000,000 tons, an
increase of 80 per cent over 1958
and comparable to the tentative
1972 goal of 7b,000,000 or 85,-
000,000 tons.
Rolled steel-70,000,000 tons,
,n,lncrease of 65 per cent over
1958.
Other goals published earlier
this year in various reports
were:
--Cement-82,000,000 tons, an
increase of "152 per cent over
19;15 and comparable to the ear-
lier 1972 goal of 90,000,000. or
110,000,000 tons.
Natural gas-150,000,000,.000
cubic meters,' a fivefold increase
in this infant industry over 1958,
but still some distance from the
1972 goal of 270,000,000,000 or
320,000,000,000 cubic meters.
Few Data on Consumer Goods
What will happen to the con-
sumer Industries during this
major push on the heavy-indus-
try front will not be clear until
the .plan is published. Last May,
In calling for a major drive to
build up the chemical and syn-
thetic-fiber industries, the Com-
munist party's Central Commit-
tee gave three consumer goals
for 1965:
Wool fabrics-500,000,000 me-
ters; an increase of 66 per cent
over expected 1958 production
and comparable to the earlier
1972 goal of 550,000,000, or
650,000,000 meters.
Leather shoes - 515,000,000
pairs, an increase of 46 per cent
c> {19,,,58 and comparable to a
1972 goal of 600,000,000. or
700,000,000 pairs.
Silk-type fabrics-1,458,000,-
000. meters, an increase of .73
per cent over 1958.
The population of the Soviet
Union and its growth will not
be clearly established until next
January's census. The estimated
population In April, . 1956, was
200,200,000 and it is belieiQd to
be growin at the rate of more
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He Plans 7 Years Ahead
Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin
OSIF IOSIFOVICH KUZ-
I MIN, the man in charge of
drawing up the new Soviet
Seven-Year Plan that Nikita
S. Khrushchev thinks will
amaze the world, is an engi-
neer turned politician, a typi-
cal member of the new class
of technocrats that rules in
Moscow. Only a year and a
Man
in the
News
half ago, appear-
ing seemingly out
of nowhere, he was
named chief eco-
nomic planner of
the Soviet Union
'and . a Deputy Premier. Not
until. Western correspondents
in Moscow had implored the
Soviet Foreign Ministry for
information on him did they
learn a few facts, such as his
year of birth (1910) and his
professional background (elec-
trical' engineering). Only
months later did they begin
to. get a look at, him as he
began to attend` diplomatic
functions in the Soviet capital.
Mr. Kuzmin turned out to
be a stocky figure, about 5
feet 8' inches tall, with a placid
face topped by graying curly
black hair. At receptions Mr.
Kuzmin laughs easily and
pleasantly, but he does not
say much, preferring to re-
main in the background while
Premier Khrushchev and other
leaders do most of the talk-
ing. He gives the impression
of being the most studious of
the Soviet leaders and, when
pressed, can reel off Soviet
economic statistics `with ease.
Mr. Kuzmin's reticence may
be related to the fact that, in
terms of Communist party
position, he is the lowest
ranking Soviet leader. So far
as is known, he is not a mem-
ber of the Central Committee,
let alone of the party's Presi-
dium, His highest party rank
is that of a member of the
Central Auditing Committee,
a secondary group that keeps
tabs on the party's account
books.
The evidence suggests that
Mr. Kuzmin's rise has been a
result of winning Premier
Khrushchev's favor eight
years ago. In return, Mr. Kuz-
min has loyally backed the
Premier's policies and assailed
his enemies. In a speech to
Soviet scientists some months
ago Mr. Kuzmin ascribed the
technological backwardness of
Soviet railroads to mistakes
of Vyacheslav M. Molotov and
Lazar M. Kaganovich, mem-
bers of the anti-Khrushchev
faction that was purged in
1957.
Occasionally Mr. Kazmin
?lets.his hair down at Moscow
diplomatic receptions. Some
months ago, he told a West-
ern diplomat that planning
ahead for seven years was
difficult indeed, since new In-
ventions and technological
discoveries could not be an-
tio- ited *Mat sort of admis-
sioii by a Soviet planner is
not usual.
Born in the Caspian port of
Camera Press?Pix
Laughs easily, but does
not say much.
Astrakhan, Mr. Kazmin. went
to work in a furniture factory
at 16 and later at the munici-
pal power plant, After having
joined the Communist party
in 1930, he studied a year at
Leningrad's institute for ship
engineers and then for five
years at the Budenny military
electrical engineering acad-
emy in that city.
When he was graduated in
1937, Mr. Kuzmin was sent to
work in a searchlight factory,
where he became an assistant
director of experimental work.
At the same time he headed
the Communist party unit and
became a,party organizer of
the Central Committee.
From 1939 to 1946, Mr.
Kuzmin rose in the ranks of
the party's Control Commis-
sion, a group charged with in-
suring party discipline, reach-
ing the rank of deputy
+bhairman.
In 1947 he was named to a
special government board to
solve agricultural problems
and in 1950, when Mr. Khru-
shchev took control of Soviet
agricultural policy, Mr. Kuz-
min became deputy chairman
of the board.
He entered the apparatus of
the Central Comhittee in 1952
and served as chief of the in-
dustry-nnd-transport and ma-
chine ~ building departments.
In these posts he worked di-
rectly under Mr. Khrushchev,
who became First Secretary
of the party in September,
1953.
As Is usual with Soviet
Ieaders, nothing has been pub-
lished about Mr. Kuzmin's
marital status. He has visited
the West at least once, ac-
conipanying the Khruzkchev-
Bulganin group to Britl in in
1956, but he was still obscure
then and attracted no atten-
tion.
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