Word: khrushchev
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...former Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev drew parallels between Russia’s conflict in Chechnya and the United States’ war on terrorism in a speech at Harvard Law School last night...
...DAVID ASTOR, 89, liberal editor, from 1948 to 1975, of the Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...
...late July 1961, President Kennedy, just back from the grim Vienna summit with Khrushchev, asked me to dinner in Palm Beach. After daiquiris and Frank Sinatra records on the patio, his three guests and I gathered around the table for fish-in-a-bag, a White House recipe. Between lusty bites, Kennedy told the story of Khrushchev's anger over West Berlin, the island of freedom in the Soviet empire's East Germany. "We have a bustling communist enclave just four blocks from the White House," I noted, meaning the Soviet embassy. Kennedy paused, fork between plate and mouth...
...blossomed in her role with the couple's visit to Europe later in 1961. Her "flawless French," exquisite sense of style and formidable knowledge of French history had both General Charles de Gaulle and his nation at her feet; even Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was smitten. A later, solo trip to India and Pakistan set the stage for Jackie's best performances yet, when she played first the "little girl," terrified of a snake, with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, then the bold horsewoman with Pakistan's leader, Ayub Khan, leaving both men charmed. Back in the U.S., her elegant...
Russia's ego certainly needs boosting. The only resemblance between Putin-Bush and the encounter between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 will be the month--both being June meetings. The Soviet leader who went to Vienna in 1961 presided over a dynamic, aggressively self-confident empire that was at the height of its powers; today Russia's decline is far from over. Putin is a recently retired civil servant...