Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separate peace treaty with its East German stooges, perhaps before the end of the year, thus provoking a new crisis in West Berlin. This is what prompted Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, just back from a quick, two-day inspection trip to West Germany, to publicly remind Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. intends to use nuclear arms, if necessary, to defend its "vital interest" of access to the city...
...soon give the same message to Khrushchev personally. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, on his way to talks with President Kennedy, claimed to have "private information" that Khrushchev will visit the United Nations General Assembly next month and take the opportunity to seek a summit session with the President...
Income tax in Russia brings in more propaganda than revenue; it represents only 7% of the government's income. In 1960 Nikita Khrushchev promised to abolish it altogether, in stages, over a five-year period. But last week, just a few days before workers with a monthly salary of 60 to 70 new rubles ($67 to $78) were to be ushered into the promised land, Izvestia announced that the third phase of the cut would be "postponed temporarily until further notice." Predictable villain: an "increase in the aggressive schemes of imperialism...
...could well turn out to be the Kremlin's answer to Jackie Kennedy. While Papa toured collective farms and industrial plants, Galina stole the show in her dazzling French dresses, Italian spike heels, and huge, dangling earrings. Making her debut on the diplomatic circuit, she completely overshadowed Nikita Khrushchev's daughter Rada, wife of Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who was also along on the trip. In contrast to Galina's exhibition of haute couture, Rada "left the impression,'' sniffed one Yugoslav, "that she does not consider dressing important...
...break with the Cominform in 1948, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have been the touchstone for Moscow's relations with the world's other Communist parties. While Stalin lived, satellite leaders were ruthlessly purged if they were suspected of sympathizing with Tito's nationalistic ideas. Under Khrushchev's more flexible policy, which allows other Communist rulers greater domestic independence but still preserves the political supremacy of the Soviet Union. Tito has been steadily wooed closer to the Kremlin. Said Tito last week, passing lightly over the past, "This fog was never so thick that it hid what...