Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country." Before long, diplomatic pouches were bringing word back that Khrushchev now felt that his young American antagonist might be much more than a pup. In evidence Khrushchev, amid belligerent yowlings, backed away from his year-end deadline about the settlement, forced or otherwise, of the Berlin question...
...youth, vigor and attractiveness of the Kennedy family. Few diplomats have scored more triumphs than Jacqueline Kennedy in her year as the nation's First Lady. She has charmed Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, Germany's Adenauer and, for that matter, Khrushchev himself (said Khrushchev of Jackie's gown: "It's beautiful!"). "Jackie wants to be as great a First Lady in her own right as Jack wants to be a great President," says a friend. Toward that end, Jackie has worked hard and effectively. She has done over the White House...
...said: "There would be hell in the world if this happened." He also temporized on the question of Red China, hedged on whether he would demand that the Red Chinese withdraw from the 14,000 square miles of Indian territory that they occupy. Nehru publicly thanked Nikita Khrushchev for his understanding of the "motives and ideas" behind the Indian invasion, said that he deplored the Western condemnation of the action. "I do not like this division of opinion-to put it very crudely, white and black," he said. "It is a bad sign, but there it is. I have been...
...Khrushchev himself continued his campaign against the "personality cult" when at a Kiev meeting his agricultural policies were openly criticized by an agronomist and he replied breezily that orders must not be obeyed unthinkingly: "I can be mistaken." But there were signs that the anti-Stalinist drive was having dangerous side effects. Central Committee Secretary Leonid Ilyichev took pains to warn a convention of 2,700 party propagandists that anti-Stalinism must not lead to questioning the Marxist-Leninist system itself or to opposing the right kind of leadership...
...Chinese, they were growing even more outspoken against Khrushchev; in Hong Kong the pro-Communist newspaper Ching Po found him even worse than Chiang Kaishek: "He decks himself out in satellites, spaceships and supernuclear bombs. He resorts to pinning the 'personality cult' label on the two leaders [Stalin and Hoxha], thereby subjecting himself to ridicule by the Western bloc...