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, ot3 on ..a$e to11mzali - 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 RAT - ,- TL.is f - K=X l) ac ear 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. 1A[5.0,62S00545A000100090139-4