Word: khrushchev
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...American foreign policy thinking. Its contributors have proposed, analyzed and, in many instances, carried out U.S. diplomacy. Its subscription list is a Who's Who of academic and political leaders around the world. Lenin is said to have read and underlined the first issue, and when Nikita Khrushchev wanted to signal a thaw in the cold war, he did so in an article in Foreign Affairs...
Prescott gives particularly detailed accounts of White House policy sessions, during both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. And who but the indefatigable Prescott would have discovered that after meeting the Khrushchevs in Vienna in 1961, Jackie Kennedy observed to her husband as they prepared for bed: "I rather like him, and Mrs. Khrushchev is such a simple and unassuming woman. They're not as uppity as the De Gaulles...
...guess we have lost Albania," said Nikita Khrushchev to a Chinese delegation in 1961, "and you have gained an important ally." Khrushchev, of course, was being heavily sarcastic after Albania's party boss Enver Hoxha sided with the Chinese against the Soviet revisionists. But ever since Albania has been China's sole friend in Europe. And for the last decade it has been as angry and insulated as Peking itself. Now, following China's lead, Albania is gradually looking outward. It has established trade and diplomatic relations with its long-estranged neighbors, Greece and Yugoslavia...
Florida Force. During the 1961 Berlin crisis, the "first generation" of Discoverer satellites was aloft, and John Kennedy was able to show Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko photographs indicating exactly how few iCBMs the Soviets really had. "I believe," says Klass, "that after Gromyko saw those pictures he persuaded Khrushchev to back down...
...Central Europe. Finally, it would prompt Brandt to seek Bundestag ratification of the nonaggression treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which have been delayed pending a Berlin agreement. Whether such a settlement happens this week or later, the talks have certainly come a long way since the days when Nikita Khrushchev declared that West Berlin was like a "cancerous growth" that ought...