Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist side, it was a week of Khrushchev huffing and puffing: now Nikita exulted in the impressive achievements of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the Russian scientists who plotted his course; now he brandished the claim of a Soviet bomb equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT; now he scoffed at Western strength ("Gentlemen capitalists, your arms are too short...
...question remains: Since negotiations necessarily imply concessions, what does either side, deeply committed as they are, really have to negotiate about? On that point, Khrushchev last week set off on a new tack. The whole German question, he cried, revolved around ''our fight for the recognition of our grandeur...
...Kennedy Administration its urgently requested authority to place the U.S.'s $8.8 billion foreign aid program on a five-year basis, without having to return to Congress with a begging bowl each year. Kennedy's proposal made sense in the need to be able to match Khrushchev in long-term commitments to needy nations. But Congressmen do not lightly surrender the power of the purse as a lever on the Executive. Harry Byrd, dean of Senate conservatives and as accurate a vote counter as exists on Capitol Hill, was pretty sure that his amendment would not pass...
...been fully briefed on the plane's real reconnaissance mission, nonetheless allowed State Department spokesmen to release a trumped-up cover story that the U-2 was merely on a weather-scouting flight. He did not tell his press officers the real truth until after Nikita Khrushchev announced that Pilot Francis Powers had been taken alive. Caught mouthing a useless lie, State was roundly scored for the gaff...
...heat increased, the hated East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht was nowhere to be seen. After he failed to appear at an East Berlin reception for Ghana's junketing Kwame Nkrumah, reports circulated that Ulbricht had flown to Moscow for fresh orders and to discuss with Khrushchev new therapy for "the bone in my throat" that is Berlin. At week's end an East German spokesman confirmed that Ulbricht was in Moscow...