Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proof quickly came that Stevenson's fears were well grounded. In Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser defiantly announced that the U.A.R. would continue to give arms and aid to Gizenga as the "legitimate government."* And in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet government was "prepared, together with other states friendly toward the Republic of the Congo," to supply Gizenga with aid, assistance and help to restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced...
...into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later put on trial before Baluba tribal chiefs. For six, the verdict was death. Hardly was this ugly news made public before whispers emerged from the Eastern province of Lumumbaist Rebel Antoine Gizenga, Khrushchev's favorite puppet, that ten imprisoned members of the national Congolese Parliament and five anti-Lumumba army officers had in turn been taken from their Stanleyville cells and slaughtered in a dawn execution early last week...
...inspired," rhapsodized Rene MacColl, U.S. correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "What a transformation has taken place in Washington. Where before there was doubt, dreariness and defeatism, now a great wave of excitement and eagerness has transformed the United States. When Kennedy and Khrushchev finally meet-wow!" Other British newsmen were not far behind. AMERICA GOES TO IT, headlined the London Daily Mail, feeling buoyant even after Kennedy's sobersided State of the Union message; KENNEDY'S CALL PUTS A ZING IN THE AIR. The hardheaded Economist, which had been cool to Kennedy before...
...rival was Novosti (News), a second news agency that as yet possesses little more than a name and an aim: "To expand the exchange of information between the Soviet Union and foreign countries." One of its charter members with a name of his own: Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. There is plenty of room for expansion of journalistic enterprise. Though impressively big (900 men), Tass is a party-lining sloth whose correspondents are used abroad for propaganda purposes as often as for reporting. Khrushchev may have been prompted to put a fire under Tass by his brushes...
Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist...