Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning on alternate currents of bellicosity and reasonableness, Khrushchev had tried to play Western tensions over Berlin as he would (in the current Washington phrase) "with a yo-yo." But his freehanded game was clearly hampered by East Germany's troubles. The U.S. was determined to control its own response, not bounce up and down as Khrushchev wished. Off to Paris flew Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for a meeting of the Western foreign ministers at which free world diplomatic strategy is to be hammered out. As the talks began, it was clear that there would eventually be some...
...Khrushchev also was talking about negotiations-in peevish, uncertain terms. Reporting back to Kennedy from a conference with Khrushchev at the Soviet leader's Black Sea dacha, Disarmament Adviser John McCloy found the Russian to be totally belligerent in mood-and irrational in manner. Khrushchev, said McCloy, was "absolutely serious" about extracting what he called the "rotten tooth" of Berlin. To Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, who called on him last week, Khrushchev warned of a nuclear war that would wipe out Italy and Britain (where the U.S. has missile bases) if the West attempted to preserve...
...embattled South Viet Nam with force of arms-and U.S. negotiators have been unable to prove them wrong. Aware now that the U.S. at last means business, Tass, in its bitter response to Kennedy's speech, insisted that the West had exaggerated Russian responsibility for the Berlin crisis. Khrushchev, who could well remember Stalingrad,* well understood Jack Kennedy's pointed reference to the beleaguered city, and he might indeed think twice about his intransigence, and suggest negotiations at which he could save face while backing down. The U.S. is eager to help him to that conclusion; last week...
...reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses to light. For if the U.S. is prepared to deal with aggression militarily - and there can be no doubt now that it is - then it will be all the more prepared to deal with it in advance by diplomacy...
...rest went off with Communist clockwork, as in any Red capital on any Red anniversary. There stood Gagarin, the pocket-sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...