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...been called an "imperialist" and "the defender of the ancien régime." He has been accused of "whitewashing McCarthy" and "throttling civil liberties." A John Bircher? An editor of the National Review? Not at all. He is John P. Roche (as in coach), national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action...
...Pass. If Red China and Rumania put Nikita on the defensive, he was nonetheless preparing for an offensive of his own in another direction. In one of those gestures of détente toward the West that so aggravate his Chinese Communist adversaries, Khrushchev called in a visiting "capitalist-imperialist" for a 21-hour chat in the Premier's Kremlin office. The visitor was none other than David Rockefeller, of Wall Street and the Chase Manhattan Bank, who had been attending a meeting in Leningrad when Nikita summoned him. In a "relaxed, friendly, even though extremely frank" atmosphere, Khrushchev...
...days after Fidel's appearance at the plate, some 1,000 boys and girls in dazzling white snaked their way through tortuous drills, finally spelling out "July 26." Then, in a hilarious pantomime, 640 youngsters filed onto the field to symbolize beisbol as it is under the dread imperialist yoke -going through the motions of batting, pitching and running in agonizing slow motion. But wait! Now came the revolution-and the youths were happily scampering around like Little Leaguers. "The sport of yesterday was commercial and a means of making money," explained the program notes. "The exploitation...
...course it had. Half a million Muscovites filled Red Square with song and holiday color, as usual. Through the balmy spring weather rumbled the same long lines of tanks and rocket launchers, as usual. Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky delivered his usual threats of rocket-borne retaliation against any imperialist aggressor. From high on the facade of the Moscow Hotel, the usual giant portrait of Nikita Khrushchev eyeballed the crowd, and-as usual-the man himself, surrounded by the same Presidium, waved his Homburg in the middle of the lineup atop Lenin's tomb...
...PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE. Closely following Marx, Lenin was convinced that competition for markets among capitalist countries would inevitably lead to war, and moreover that "the existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end. And before that end arrives, a series of frightful collisions between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states will be inevitable." Lenin was sure that the general havoc caused by war was necessary for the spread of Communism. He vaguely referred to the idea of peaceful coexistence only a few times, and for special...