Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those late-at-night talkathons in Havana, and Fidel Castro sat toying with a popgun that shot pingpong balls. "We are the only judge of what is right for our defense," he told the visiting reporter. "I said this to Mikoyan when he was sent by Khrushchev." Castro laughed, and added: "If Khrushchev had come himself. I would have punched...
Some of them suggest that Soviet Premier Khrushchev may be trying to stir up new trouble by pressing unacceptable demands on the West...
With the idea men out of the way, Khrushchev turned to the painful problem of Russia's factories and farms...
...Premier called a special joint session of the Communist Party Presidium and the government's Council of Ministers, which announced creation of a new, all-powerful Supreme Economic Council, discarding at last the discredited scheme for regional industrial autonomy that was installed in 1957. At the same meeting, Khrushchev scrapped the last two years of his much-touted Seven-Year Plan (1964-65) and ordered the new economic czars to get busy and draft a new set of quotas...
...Kennedy was in top form. With the issue of Government-managed news still a hot one, he began his talk with the greeting "Fellow managing editors." In mock-somber tones and with almost professional timing, the President went on to describe the discovery of a serious new Soviet threat. Khrushchev sent his son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City. But Washington was on to the game, warned Kennedy. The U.S. even knew the secret...