Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward Action. By last week, John Kennedy's total occupation was turning toward action. Off to Moscow this week, after last-minute revisions to satisfy NATO allies, will go the U.S. answer to Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. The State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand. The President this week will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans (his top aides have already visited Gettysburg to inform Dwight Eisenhower), issue a statement on Berlin at his midweek press conference, hold a planning session...
President Kennedy's call for a reassessment was prompted by Khrushchev's saber-rattling announcement a week ago that Russia was postponing its scheduled cut of 1,200,000 in military manpower and increasing its military budget by one-third. Prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this latest military review will pass under the eye of General Maxwell Taylor, the White House's new military adviser, before it reaches President Kennedy. Its major purpose: to impress the seriousness of the coming crisis upon the U.S. public...
...seriously suggest that calling up a dozen Reserve divisions will make Khrushchev hesitate to make a grab for Berlin. But the Army wants to prepare as fast as it can for any brush fires the Russians may set around the rim of the Western world while U.S. attention is riveted on Germany. Rushing its readiness, the Defense Department last week announced that it will build up the Army full strength (870,000) by drafting 8,000 men in August, the largest draft call since last December...
...Rejecting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand that a three-man secretariat replace Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold as head of the U.N., the U.S. promised to use its veto to preserve the status quo. Russia's "troika" proposal, argued Rusk, not only "flies in the face of everything we know about effective administration" but attacks "the equal rights and opportunities now enjoyed by all members of the General Assembly-and the protection afforded them by the U.N.'s peace-keeping machinery...
...with Politburo precision, reported the Ulan Bator festivities in a big Page One spread, relegated the Peking fete to a small item on page 6. Polish Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz set off to pay an official visit to Ulan Bator, but have been told by Khrushchev to stop there, not to go on to neighboring China. Russia publicly embarrassed the Chinese by unilaterally announcing last week that China was $300 million in debt to Moscow, as if to emphasize that Peking had better set its own house in order before aspiring to a bigger role...