Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumphs of Hubert Humphrey's Senate career was his 81-hour interview with Nikita Khrushchev in 1958. As Vice President, he would like nothing better than to repeat such for eign policy triumphs, but some frustration has already...
...peace-keeping operations in the Middle East and the Congo. Unless the Russians kick in this time, the U.S. will move to strip them of their General Assembly vote under Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which ought to touch off the liveliest scene since Khrushchev took off his shoe. If and when that problem is settled, the long-nettlesome issue of Red China's admission to the U.N. is certain to follow...
...PETR EFIMOVICH SHELEST, 56, bald and beaming protege of fellow Ukrainian Podgorny (whom he succeeded as First Secretary of the Ukraine), won delicious revenge with his appointment to the Presidium. In Budapest last April, Shelest was singled out publicly by Khrushchev as the "culprit" who had failed to deliver electric motors to Hungary on schedule. Additionally, he has been outspokenly critical of Nikita's agricultural reforms, objected vociferously to the agricultural-industrial split in party administration, which Podgorny is now charged with mending. If Podgorny moves ahead in power and authority, Shelest will be right behind...
...Secretariat member and chief overseer of Russia's chemical and light industries, was elevated to alternate Presidium membership. A dandy with high-piled hair and a low-keyed manner, Demichev is a chemical engineer by training, shared with Kosygin the responsibility for developing the consumer-goods industry, which Khrushchev chose to emphasize late in his career. Demichev's promotion is an indication of the continued importance Moscow's new regime attaches to chemicals and consumer goods, no heavy-industry "metal eater" was promoted...
...communique announcing the changes, no mention was made of Leonid Brezhnev, Khrushchev's successor as party boss. In the precise symbolism of Soviet affairs, this seemed to indicate that Brezhnev had not yet really consolidated his position within the new, precariously balanced "collective leadership...