Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking beyond the Moscow talks toward other negotiable issues. In Washington, President Kennedy told his news conference it was "clear that these negotiations, if successful, should lead on to wider discussions among other nations." But the President seemed in no hurry to rush into a top-level meeting with Khrushchev. "There is no evidence," he said, "that a summit is indicated or needed...
Past cold war "thaws" have proved to be only interludes between freeze-ups. But this time some Western diplomats thought they detected the promise of a thaw deeper and more durable than its predecessors-largely because Khrushchev now has compelling reasons to work toward a long-term easing of tensions. Foremost among them is his bitter doctrinal struggle with Red China. The gravity of that dispute was dramatically underscored by the contrasting cordiality of the East-West talks and the glum hostility that shrouded the Sino-Soviet parleys in Moscow. Also prodding Khrushchev to produce a test ban treaty...
Within a few months after taking office as President, John F. Kennedy confronted the crisis that climaxed with the building of the Berlin Wall. When he ordered military readiness to demonstrate his determination to Khrushchev, the President was shocked to find that the Army was in a lower state than he had supposed. The Army repeatedly had to borrow equipment from one unit to fit out another. Reserve units called to duty found they had no weapons. Kennedy decided to get started on building up the Army: he called General Taylor from retirement, made him a military troubleshooter and later...
...times it was almost more than Western veterans of many anti-Communist battles could bear. "Love," said Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, "love and respect for other people is what we need." The love feast lasted all week. The beaming smile splashing across Khrushchev's moonface, the blunt, back-slapping peasant humor, the friendly-bear quality of the Soviet boss when he decides to be amiable-all these familiar traits were on full display in Moscow as U.S., British and Russian diplomats sat down to try to negotiate a nuclear test ban agreement...
Agents in Overalls. For the royal visit, the Macmillan government mounted a security force that outdid even the Bulganin-Khrushchev welcome in 1956. On hand were 5,000 police, including plainclothesmen disguised in everything from morning coats to overalls. As the royal procession of carriages clip-clopped from Victoria Station, where Elizabeth greeted them, to Buckingham Palace, a woman burst from the crowd and shrieked: "Release my husband!" She turned out to be Mrs. Betty Ambatielos, 45, the English wife of Antonios Ambatielos, a Greek Communist serving a life term for his part in the cival...