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...remains to be seen how Reagan will get along with Gorbachev. In contrast to some earlier summit mismatches, like the urbane but untested John Kennedy and the blustering Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, both Reagan and Gorbachev are charismatic and confident performers...
...dramatic moment comes from tapes made by Nikita Khrushchev after he had been deposed as Kremlin leader in 1964.* The glee in Khrushchev's voice is evident as he recalls toying with Washington after the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane in 1960 and captured Pilot Gary Powers. The U.S., thinking the plane had been destroyed and the pilot killed, initially insisted that the aircraft had been on a weather reconnaissance mission. "After they . . . got thoroughly wound up in this unbelievable story, we decided to tell the world what had really happened," says Khrushchev. Eisenhower, who had recorded...
FOOTNOTE: *The oral reminiscences came into the hands of Time Inc. in 1970 and were the basis for the volume of memoirs Khrushchev Remembers. Time Inc. donated the tapes to Columbia University, which allowed ABC to broadcast them for the first time...
...same breath, Yevtushenko mocked some of the policies of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Yevtushenko has always been very adept at knowing which way the political winds are blowing. Clearly, he has lent his literary voice to Gorbachev's campaign...
...house put on sale, at ten kopecks (12 cents) each, 200,000 copies of a 30-page booklet containing the text of the interview as compiled --and slightly censored--by TASS. The agency deleted a joking allusion to an aged Soviet Finance Minister and a glancing mention of Nikita Khrushchev, who apparently is still a nonperson in the U.S.S.R. Most striking, TASS changed a Gorbachev reference to "God on high" to "honestly...