Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind. Russia's Delegate Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo and let the peace-loving Congolese handle things themselves. Continuing Khrushchev's campaign to destroy Hammarskjold, Zorin said of the phlegmatic man at his side: "We must note once again that Mr. Hammarskjold speaks and acts like the colonizers...
Cause of the reluctant U.S. switch was a clever Kremlin ploy. Returning from a Communist-subsidized trip to Moscow 18 months ago, a Bolivian professor brought news that the Soviets would be pleased to provide Bolivia with a smelter to refine its own tin ore. Last September Khrushchev buttonholed a Bolivian diplomat at a Manhattan cocktail party to make the offer again, and the pressure became too great for Bolivia to refuse...
Generally accustomed to ignoring his aches, pains and hangovers, that durable old Slav, Nikita Khrushchev, 66, took to his bed with what was described as "a touch of influenza." One treat that Khrushchev was thereby obliged to forgo was a tea party given by Mrs. Khrushchev for Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, capitalism's foremost coexister, and Mrs. Eaton. Another was a massive "friendship rally" for Red China's departing Chief of State Liu Shao...
Embodied in the new Communist Manifesto, published during the recent Moscow conference of the 81 communist parties, the change in policy means that Peking is now the "ideological center" of the communist world. Political pressures within Russia, Browder asserted, forced Khrushchev to submit to the Chinese stand that history will guarantee a socialist victory...
...Khrushchev's table-thumping performance at the United Nations is evidence of this return to post-war Stalinism and the rigid division of East and West into two absolutely opposed camps, he claimed. Moscow's inability to do anything but tone down the "obvious crudities" of Chinese policy in the Manifesto is proof that Mao Tse-Tung can intervene successfully in Russia's internal affairs...