Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canceled the showing of a TV documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. Prepared by the state-owned TV network, the film included a tirade by Nikita Khrushchev that, in the government's words, was "violently hostile to West Germany and to the policy of Franco-German rapprochement.''' Same week, another documentary movie. Death in Madrid, consisting mostly of stock shots taken during the 1936 Spanish Civil War, was denied a license for exhibition in France or abroad-presumably for fear of offending Franco...
...Paris Opera to cancel a performance by Rudolf Nureyev, a Russian ballet dancer who defected to the West in 1961. Though Nureyev has already danced in Paris, London and New York, the French government plainly felt that his appearance in Paris now would be an affront to Nikita Khrushchev...
...anti-Gaullist terrorists who were hiding out in Spain. Banning the Stalingrad show may just possibly have been repaid last week when German police failed to prevent mysterious French agents in Munich from kidnaping a top S.A.O. leader, Antoine Argoud (see below). But it seemed unlikely that Khrushchev would care greatly if Nureyev danced in Paris, or that Adenauer would object to being damned by Nikita on TV. On the other hand, when a government is not subject to censure or legal redress, who expects logic...
...conduct are not forthcoming, the government should still let reporters willing to take the risk upon themselves go to Cuba. They would be little risk of imprisonment: Castro--like Kennedy--does not desire to create an incident which might trigger an invasion. Furthermore, he can use American reporters as Khrushchev does, to send trial balloons toward Washington. Castro seems confident that Americans will be impressed, as British and European correspondents have been, by what they...
...minute discussion was conducted under large portraits of Lenin and Khrushchev in a heavily glided rococo room that one Harvard visitor suggested would have been more appropriate as a Czarist embassy...