Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministers, by far the best interpreter of his policies. Furthermore, Couve's personality-his reticence, precision, haughtiness-met De Gaulle's criteria of the attributes of a man of quality. The story goes that on a visit to Paris as Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev boasted about his Foreign Minister, saying, "I can order Gromyko to sit on a chunk of ice and he stays there until the ice has melted." Replied De Gaulle: "I can order Couve to sit on a chunk of ice, and it won't even begin to melt...
...over the generals and the "metal eaters" by arguing that the arms race could lead not only to further economic strain but even to war. Johnson's spadework for the forthcoming talks began less than two months after he took office. In January 1964 he wrote to Nikita Khrushchev, calling for talks on controlling nuclear weaponry. Ever since, he has kept after Moscow with what an aide called "enormous, stubborn persistence." During his summit meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro, N.J., in June 1967, he urged talks on limiting the ruinously expensive development of anti-ballistic missile...
...18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
LIMITED NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY, 1963. Originally put forward by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954, the treaty was brought into being by Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy ten months after the Cuba missile crisis. More than 100 countries (excluding France and China) joined in the so-called Moscow Treaty, which banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in space and under water...
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