Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Look!" howled Khrushchev, pulling out empty pockets. "He robs me of everything. He takes everything I have...
...climax of the evening came in true Sukarno style. A flock of pretty Indonesian girls he had brought with him to Moscow in his chartered U.S. jet rushed up and kissed the top Soviet leaders. Sukarno then demanded to be kissed in return by a Russian girl. Resourcefully, Nina Khrushchev walked into the crowd of lower-ranking guests and spied a pretty girl. "Are you Russian?" she asked. "Yes." said the girl. "Then come and kiss President Sukarno," commanded Nina. The girl said no, she did not want to. Her husband said he did not want her to. But Nina...
Reluctantly, the girl came forward and got soundly kissed. Khrushchev thanked her for "upholding Russian honor," and with that he left the party, an hour behind schedule and apparently without a care in the world...
...Nikita Khrushchev last week rumbled his new threats against the Western presence in Berlin, the reasons for his ire were shuffling through the long lines at West Berlin's big, drab Marienfelde clearing center for refugees. They were the Grenzgänger, the border-hopping escapees from East Germany who flee to the West by the hundreds each week, making a mockery of Communist claims of providing a better life, and sapping the strength of their limping, labor-short country. Since 1945, some 4,000,000 East Germans-almost one-fourth of East Germany's entire present population...
...Africans have gained in maturity in the few months since Nikita Khrushchev first banged his shoe on a U.N. desk. They recognize that nothing much can be done in the U.N. unless it has the backing of the U.S., and they have shown willingness to accept moderate measures that the U.S. can support. Furthermore, Russian influence has dropped sharply. In African eyes, Khrushchev had proved a total flop in the Congo. Even some of his best African friends, among them Egypt's Nasser (see below) and Ghana's Nkrumah, have learned that dealing with Khrushchev is frustrating...