Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer-range problem was explaining how Khrushchev, the champion of coexistence, came to agree with the bellicose Chinese at last month's Communist summit conference. In a speech published in the theoretical magazine Kommunist, Khrushchev explained the nuances to loyal Moscow party organizers. The Communist revolution, said Khrushchev, is not in favor of big wars or "local wars" of the Suez type that might blaze up and get out of control; but Communism will encourage and support "without reservation" all "national liberation wars" that might hurt "capitalist imperialism." In other words, the Russians would go on subsidizing subversion...
Lest any comrade be misled by his cordial message congratulating new U.S. President Kennedy on his inauguration, Khrushchev added a plain statement: "The No. 1 enemy of the peoples of the world," said Nikita...
Look-Alikes. The clearest sign of growing Chinese influence appeared two months ago at the Red summit in Moscow, when a four-hour Chinese denunciation of Khrushchev's coexistence policies drew its strongest support from the delegations from Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The basis for such influence is Red China's modulated but persistent argument that the increasingly industrialized Soviet Union bears little resemblance to underdeveloped, poverty-ridden Latin American nations. A much closer lookalike, Latin Americans are told persuasively, is Red China, land of the triumphant peasant revolutionary...
...years ago, when a fast-breaking, aggressive team of Soviet basketbolisty walloped a U.S. quintet 62-37 in a world amateur tournament in Santiago, Chile, Communists everywhere hailed it as another landmark in Khrushchev's campaign to overtake the U.S. in everything from meat production to widget manufacture. "When it comes to shooting at the moon or at the basket, the U.S. cannot keep up with Russia," trumpeted a leftist Chilean paper. "We won," declared Russian Coach Stepan Spandarian loftily, "because we did what we planned...
...Optimists. Last week, with increased vigilance against backcourt deviationists and Trotskyite dribblers, Soviet basketballers returned to the task laid down by Soccer Fan Khrushchev at the 21st Party Congress- preparing for the withering away of the state in the world of sport. Best guess was that this goal was being pursued without the advice of ex-Optimists Spandarian and Semashko, who had already taken just about all the withering a man can stand...