Word: khrushchev
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...President had more than declarations of principle to offer. The U.S. and Russia, he said, were both cutting back on the production of nuclear-arms materials. "Simultaneously with my announcement now," said Johnson, "Chairman Khrushchev is releasing a statement in Moscow." Khrushchev did, promising that the Soviets would stop construction of two new atomic reactors for plutonium production. In turn, the U.S. is cutting plutonium production by 20% and enriched uranium production by 40%. But President Johnson warned: "This is not disarmament. This is not a declaration of peace...
Although many pundits feared that Johnson's greatest weakness would be in foreign affairs, he has dealt competently with crises in Panama, Cyprus and Viet Nam. He fielded a coup in Brazil with certainty, dealt evenhandedly with such sticky people and places as Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, Berlin and Communist China...
After soliciting support from Faculty members later this week, Hillel will send the petition to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, President Johnson, and Secretary of State Rusk...
...Chinese Communism won him the enmity, not the admiration, of Mao Tse Tung. As for de-Stalinization, Isaac Deutscher is not the only student of Communist affairs who regards Mao's abortive effort to "let a hundred flowers bloom" as a more sincere attempt to liberalize Chinese society than Khrushchev's own halting program in Russia...
Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...