Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DUAN, the party chief. Though he is First Secretary of the Hanoi party and was second only to Ho in the Vietnamese Communist hierarchy, he is little known in the West. Nikita Khrushchev once said Le Duan (pronounced Lay Zwan) "talks, thinks and acts like a Chinese," but he is believed to be neutral, or even mildly inclined toward Moscow, in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Imprisoned for ten years by the French, he began his career late but climbed fast. When the country was divided in 1954, Hanoi withdrew its crack troops from the South but assigned Le Duan there...
...since 1963, when he fled Moscow in fear and disgust. Ashkenazy explained that he had been forbidden to travel for three years after his U.S. tour in 1958, and was later granted an exit visa only on condition that his wife remained in Russia as a "moral hostage." Eventually, Khrushchev gave them permission to travel together, arid once they left home, they never returned. "No sane person would wish to run such a risk again," said Ashkenazy...
...Soviet Union Lectures--Michel Tatu of Le Monde will lecture on "Power in the Kremlin from Khrushchev to Kosygin." Emerson Hall...
...during World War II. His books disappeared from the shops, and his name was stricken from The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia. He became an Orwellian unperson. Whether Babel was shot immediately after a sham trial or died in a forced-labor camp has never been known with any certainty. After Khrushchev "rehabilitated" Babel's name in 1954, the family received only a certificate giving an official death date of March...
...Irish system. From the victim's point of view, a cosmopolitan religion was an excellent way of trying to get back into the stream of history. Time and again the Irish signaled other Catholic countries for help. The French or the Spanish would send a few ships-like Khrushchev sending his missiles halfway to Cuba-and another rising would fail, until a mood of fatalism set in and the old warlike mockery became heavily larded with cries of lament and self-pity: "Poor Wexford, stript naked, hangs high on the cross,/With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves...