Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his country must retain the favor of its Soviet neighbor. While this has not meant alliance with the Soviets, it has led to a neutrality that slightly favors them. Kekkonen keeps up his ties with the Russians; few men can boast of having established personal relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin and Brezhnev...
...hock to Russia; without Russian fuel, all North Korean jets would be grounded and a complete cutoff in aid would probably cripple the country. Kim has also made a bitter enemy of Peking; wall posters have denounced him as "a traitor to the worker class and a disciple of Khrushchev" -a Communist leader that Kim could never abide...
...tract in support of Goldwater, A Choice Not an Echo, became a motto for Goldwaterites, and now, said one of her followers, "the liberal rats" were out to get her. (Mrs. Schlafly claims that another of her tomes, The Gravediggers, was the major factor in the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev...
...could not be-well. I loved him, I respected him, and when he was gone I have lost maybe a lot of faith." She lost a lot more as well: after Stalin's death in 1953 and his denunciation before the 20th Party Congress of 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, Svetlana became an extension of the Stalin era and thus a liability to the Soviet leadership. "I had perhaps something what can be named as a privileged life," she said wryly. "But, as you know, people cannot live only by bread...
Distasteful though it was, Adenauer journeyed to Moscow in 1955 to see whether any hope could be found in the Kremlin for German reunification. There was none, except in the form of "some very unchaste offers" from Khrushchev. Even though European unity was set back by the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle, and specifically by De Gaulle's veto of British Common Market membership on Jan. 14, 1963, Adenauer a scant week later concluded a perpetual Treaty of Friendship with France, to much dismay in the West...