Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy hustled Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Averell Harriman, who had hammered out the basic format for the Geneva Agreement last summer, to Moscow to urge on Khrushchev the need for Russian intercession in Laos. "We regard the maintenance of the Geneva accords as essential to the security of Laos itself," said Kennedy, "and as a test of whether it is possible for an accord to be reached between countries which have serious differences." In Moscow, Harriman was received coolly; only a junior protocol officer was at the airport to meet him. When...
Crystal Balls. What on earth did Khrushchev mean? Was he about to resign as Premier of the nation, First Secretary of the Communist Party, or both? Had he lost out in a back-room power struggle? Or was he merely trying to smooth the way for a possible successor? If the public was baffled, so were the free world's Kremlinologists, that tight little band of experts who spend half their time reading between Pravda's lines and half peering into their crystal balls...
...Nikita Khrushchev's speech started off like just one more of his exhaustive exhortations for harder work by party bosses and factory hands. But by the time he was through, three hours later, his rambling remarks in the Kremlin's Palace of the Co gresses had touched off a fresh torrent of speculation about the future leadership of the Soviet Union. And all because of a few vague sentences about old age. Mused the Kremlin commissar: "Here am I, a man of the older generation . . . I am already 69, and everyone knows that I cannot hold forever...
...weeks, the experts had been feverishly speculating over Khrushchev's possible heir. The favorite was handsome, hard-boiled Frol Kozlov, 54, No. 2 man in the party, whom Nikita had quietly singled out as his choice almost four years ago (TIME cover, July 13, 1959 ). But other experts excitedly pointed out that Kozlov was the only Kremlin leader absent from a major Moscow blowout last week marking the 93rd anniversary of Lenin's birth, thus concluded that Kozlov might be on the skids...
...basis of such barely visible clues, weary Kremlinologists stake their reputations. One of the best of the bunch, Britain's Edward Crankshaw, inspired one theory of Nikita's future with a frontpage story in London's Observer declaring that aging Khrushchev might announce his retirement "within two years" at the coming May 28 meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Who told him? "Well-informed Soviet sources," of course...