Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angry Man. Khrushchev had not only agreed to dismantle his missiles and to remove them from Cuba; he had professed himself willing to have United Nations inspectors oversee the withdrawal. This was a basic U.S. condition. But arrangements for the inspection became confused when they were placed in the hands of the U.N. and its Acting Secretary-General U Thant...
...cold climate. Ordinarily, Fidel Castro is one of the world's most assiduous airport greeters. But he did not show up to welcome Thant, and when the two finally did meet, Castro had his gat ostentatiously bolstered on his hip. In his long, rambling talks, Castro sputtered that Khrushchev had sold him down the river. As to the bargain the Russian Premier had made with Kennedy, Castro cried: "I have not once been consulted...
Enter the Salesman. U Thant returned from Cuba murmuring diplomatically that the talks had been "fruitful." With their strutting puppet causing an impasse, the Russians announced that Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev's First Deputy Premier and the U.S.S.R.'s most amiable salesman, would go to Cuba. There was an understandable notion that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were...
Rising Doubts. Castro's refusal to allow inspection was further proof of something that should have been explosively apparent all along: as long as he is in power, there will be a Caribbean crisis. During the agonizing days of week before last, President Kennedy and Russia's Khrushchev exchanged many messages. Some of them have still to be made public (see cover), and in others there were some statements that went largely unnoticed in the U.S.'s enthusiasm over Khrushchev's backdown. Thus, Kennedy at one point declared that the U.S. would be willing to work...
...long wait went on, there could still be no doubt that the U.S. Government, acting courageously and cannily, had forced Russia's Khrushchev to back away from his Cuban foray. But as the days went by, there was the feeling that the U.S. might also be letting great gains for freedom slip away...