THE SOVIET UNION SIX MONTHS AFTER KHRUSHCHEV'S FALL,

Foreign and domestic policies of the USSR under the leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin are discussed. It is concluded that Soviet policy abroad--both with regard to the contest with the West and the problems of Soviet leadership within the communist world--seems to present the new regime with challenges no less exacting than those faced by Khrushchev. It is also believed that in at least one respect, notably in Southeast Asia, the new regime finds itself in a position a good deal more critical than at the time it assumed power in Moscow.