Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a victor, it is the American citizen, and if there is a hero, it is the same American citizen who, after forcing a reluctant President into action, backed him 100% and proved to Mr. Khrushchev the extent of U.S. determination...
Wine for the Basso. Khrushchev him self stayed outwardly calm. In the midst of the crisis, he took 3½ hours to chat with a visiting American, Westinghouse Electric Vice President William E. Knox, who was in Moscow for a conference on industrial research. Spotting a picture of bearded Karl Marx on the wall, Knox moved Khrushchev to guffaws by remarking: "I didn't know that Marx was a Cuban." When Rumania's Communist leaders came through town, Khrushchev took them to a 3¾-hour performance of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theater, where he loudly applauded...
...limousines of Moscow's top officials rolled in and out of the Kremlin as the Council of Ministers met. Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky put his vast air, sea and land force on a state of alert. None of this could disguise the fact that, stage by stage, Khrushchev was backing away from conflict. His offer of a deal with the West told the astonished Russian public for the first time that Russian missiles were in Cuba. His agreement to withdraw them was of course hailed by press and radio as a major gesture for world peace...
Some Westerners believe that things must be made "easier" for Khrushchev by the West if he is not to fall prey to neo-Stalinist reactionaries. Moscow often seems eager to encourage this view, even though officially it has pronounced Stalinism as dead as Old Joe himself. Since early this year, Poet Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME cover, April 13), most popular spokesman of Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last...
...meeting with Russia's Ambassador Ivan A. Benediktov was a further eye opener for Nehru, who had clearly been counting on Nikita Khrushchev to help restrain Red China. The ambassador flatly advised Nehru 1) not to appeal to the West for arms, because this would involve India in the cold war, and 2) not to take the border question to the U.N., since, in the last resort, the Soviet Union would be forced to side with Red China. Benediktov advised negotiation with Red China-Peking's latest offer, after advancing up to 40 miles into India, is that...