Word: baku
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon a band struck up lively dance music in the adjoining Vladimir Hall. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, that scowling Old Bolshevik who helped the Soviets take over in Baku, led off with an Armenian solo. Then blonde Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman on the top Presidium, danced decorously out on the arm of President Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev, after watching a while from a stairway, walked off to the Winter Garden with West German Ambassador Hans Kroll, whose government a few hours earlier had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union in Bonn, increasing their trade...
Next day they kicked out Robert Christner, 27, a Russian-speaking U.S. tourist who wore a "suspicious-looking" money belt, took pictures of the harbor in Baku and incautiously gave chance Russian acquaintances his copy of Doctor Zhivago and a couple of New York newspapers. The day after that, police expelled James Shultz, 21, an Otis, Kans. boy on a Y.M.C.A. tour. Komsomolskaya Pravda said that Shultz had met in Kiev "a ras cal ready to sell his honor for foreign rags," had given him three Bibles as well as some clothes. ("I don't know of anything...
...West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon's speech, Khrushchev made a speech at the oil town of Baku, rattling his rockets, reviving his threats on Berlin...
Keep Out of the Air. Khrushchev launched on his new line three weeks ago. In a bombastic speech at Baku, he warned that if he signed a separate peace treaty with East Germany, the Western allies "will naturally not be able to reach Berlin by land, water or air," and if they try to use force for the purpose, "this force will be opposed by force from the other side, based on law and right...