Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this talk about Mr. Kennedy's sitting in conference with Khrushchev is all nonsense. The story of the hunter and the bear will illustrate: as a hunter raised his rifle, the bear called out, "Can't we talk this over like two sober human beings?" The hunter lowered his gun. "What's to talk over?" he asked. "Well," said the bear, "what do you want to shoot me for?" "Simple," grunted the hunter, "I want a fur coat." "All I want is a good breakfast," smiled the bear. "I am sure we can get together on this...
...Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson on his way back to Moscow bearing a letter to Khrushchev stating that Khrushchev could talk to Thompson as frankly as he might to Kennedy himself. There was no talk of summitry-just the fact that Thompson was there, wearing the presidential colors, if Khrushchev wanted to get on with his oft-proclaimed goal of easing tensions...
Well before Thompson landed in Moscow, Khrushchev roared new support for his Communist-backed rebel leader in the Congo and ruled out any compromise. U.S. intelligence duly noted that new Soviet advisers were trickling into the pro-Communist capital of Stanleyville. Soviet Ilyushins renewed their milk-run nights to help the Communist-led rebels in Laos. Moscow's Pravda suddenly revved up the ominous old demands that Western troops get out of Berlin on Soviet terms...
...managed to tarnish the image of the U.N., and to diminish the effectiveness of its Secretary-General, even though the small nations rallied to Hammarskjold's defense. But Khrushchev also had his failures. The uncommitted nations refused to stampede. And if his actions were designed to test the mettle and temper of the new Kennedy Administration, he found it unmistakably firm...
Publication of this novel was held up for two years in the Soviet Union because of its "ideological deviations." Reportedly, it took Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism...