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...unexpected acceptance of London's invitation by Gorbachev recalled another Soviet foreign policy initiative staged on British soil. In 1956, during the cold war, Nikita Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin came calling, opening a campaign of personal diplomacy in the West that culminated in Khrushchev's 1959 tour of the U.S. That was also a period of progress in arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet Union, though no major agreement emerged until the limited test-ban treaty...
Talbott interned in TIME'S London and Moscow bureaus while at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, then worked for Time Inc. in 1970 as editor-translator of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs. He then served as TIME'S Eastern Europe correspondent, and in 1974 was about to become Moscow bureau chief. But he was denied a visa to the Soviet capital "because of his involvement with a second Khrushchev volume, and he took up residence in the U.S. capital instead. "The Soviets had inadvertently done me a great favor," he now reflects. "I had a series of extremely...
Subtle shifts in physical and mental health leave their mark on presidential actions. Without his throbbing back would Kennedy have been quite so glum after his 1961 Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev and spread so much alarm in the country? Hindsight suggests that the U.S. may have done a little more nervous saber rattling that summer than the situation in Berlin really required...
Reagan had been initiated into the club. In 1961 John Kennedy encountered the same cold void when he talked to Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. "I never met a man like that before," marveled Kennedy when he got back home...
Reagan will not confront Gromyko. The President is tough in policy, in speeches, on paper. Eyeball to eyeball he softens, not hardens. He listens, smiles, talks softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...