Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convoy rumbled into East Germany at 9 one morning, Russian officers at the Marienborn checkpoint refused to let it pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group of 21 U.S. executives visiting Moscow (see THE WORLD), it could have meant war. "It is a matter of a soldier being a soldier," he said. "If someone wants to break through, then it is in the natural course of things that force will...
...G.I.s settled down for a long wait, setting up latrine screens off the road and eating hot meals brought in by MPs from nearby Helmstedt, Western statesmen weighed the implications of the blockade. After all, as Khrushchev remarked last week, "A soldier is not a foreign minister. He cannot enter into negotiations and he has to carry out his orders. That is the law for both our soldiers and yours." British and French officials agreed to stage a show of support for the U.S. by mounting convoys of their own to test the Russians. But the Russians waved the allied...
...Real Point. The Russians claimed victory; actually nobody really won. Though the Russians succeeded in demonstrating that they will not be happy until Khrushchev gets that Berlin bone out of his throat, the allies stood firm in the face of Soviet pressure. But they were also reminded that Moscow can heat up a crisis at any time over Berlin. "Sometimes," explained Dean Rusk at week's end, "these incidents look rather artificial. But that is not really the issue. The point is not whether a particular tail gate is lowered. The point is freedom of access to West Berlin...
...hear Nikita Khrushchev tell it, the $250 million wheat deal between the U.S. and the Communist bloc was about to crumble like a dry cooky. "I do have a feeling one might not come to an agreement," he told Moscow's visiting U.S. businessmen. "It may well happen that we will let you eat your own grain...
...turned out, Khrushchev's information was slightly stale. After a month of fruitless haggling, the Russians had indeed been on the verge of calling the whole deal off early last week. Their main complaint was a provision that the wheat must move in U.S. ships, whose rates were as much as $10 a ton higher than foreign rates...