Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lenient toward Peng, he remained furious at Khrushchev and his furtive interference in China's internal affairs. Mao, according to the China Quarterly version, demanded an apology; Khrushchev refused. At the Bucharest Communist conference in June 1960, Khrushchev lashed out instead at the Chinese for "persecuting" any comrades who had contacts with the Soviet Union. All this aggravated the basic difference between Khrushchev's "coexistence" line as against Mao's rigidly revolutionary policy, and helped bring the fight into the open...
...hazarding a high reputation in the theater by committing himself to a university group, Houseman says: "My whole life in show business has been a risk. There are two approaches. Either you play it very shrewd and sit back safely, or you do what amuses you." Born in Bucharest of a French father and a British mother, Houseman was educated in France and England, and worked as a London grain broker before moving to New York and his first area of amusement: Broadway...
Ruth Gikow is the daughter of a Ukrainian photographer who took his family west shortly after the Soviet revolution. The family roamed about Europe for a while, spent a year at a gypsy camp outside Bucharest, finally settled down on New York's Lower East Side-where it is natural for an imaginative girl to long for a French maid...
...delegates from 81 worldwide Communist parties sat gaping. "Khrushchev has distorted the theses of Leninism to suit his own purposes!" Hoxha sided flatly with Red China in the ideological battle to keep Stalinism alive, lashed out at Moscow for organizing the vendetta against Peking at last summer's Bucharest conference...
Leadership Is Indivisible. Then Khrushchev set his glass down and led Liu and 46 other Communist chieftains up the stairs to the Kremlin's green-tiled Winter Garden Room to open his "Red summit'' meeting. He had tried in vain to arrange a compromise at the Bucharest meeting last June. He had gone to lengths that flabbergasted Westerners, Afro-Asians and apparently even his own comrades at the U.N. to show that he could comport himself as militantly as any Peking proponent of revolutionary violence. Now, presumably convinced that anything but peaceful coexistence is suicidal for Soviet...