Word: khrushchevism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rusk continued: "In 1961 we were in the middle of the negotiations on Laos. Our hope then, especially after the apparent agreement Kennedy had with Khrushchev in Vienna, was that everyone would get out of Laos, a major step toward peace in Southeast Asia. So I was very reluctant at that period to see us go gung-ho in the area until we saw how that worked out." Moreover, Rusk said, the level of infiltration was "still very low," and the Berlin crisis made "a number of us reluctant to make additional commitments in South Viet Nam during that episode...
...when Op-Ed allowed Economist Rothbard, a onetime contributor to William Buckley's National Review, to criticize Buckley for abandoning the individualistic concept that the best government is the least government. In a subsequent solicited rebuttal, Buckley retorted that Rothbard failed to make a moral distinction between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower...
...Orthodox Church suffered greatly in the last decade of Alexei's 25-year reign when Nikita Khrushchev forced half the country's churches to close to prove he was a hard-line Communist. Now a reform movement within Orthodoxy, seeking complete freedom from state controls, is bound to further complicate the church's nervous relationship with the Soviet government. The new Patriarch must also deal with the state's Council on Religious Affairs, which is likely to keep a close rein on him. In the past, Pimen has accommodated himself to the state's needs...
...Russians had also come to probe the political complexion of Sadat's new government. Since the days of Nikita Khrushchev, who once admitted to Sadat that "we cannot drive people into paradise with a stick," Moscow has hoped that the Egyptians would eventually find their own way into the socialist Eden. Egypt's only political party, the Arab Socialist Union, appeared an ideal ideological instrument for the journey; it was certainly no accident that Ali Sabry, Sadat's principal competitor for power, was until last month both the dominant voice within the A.S.U. and the Egyptian leader...
...wide audience as a combat reporter in Europe during World War II and later in Korea. He became a member of the Hearst "Task Force" and shared a 1955 Pulitzer Prize with Joseph Kingsbury-Smith and William Randolph Hearst Jr. for the trio's exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev. Conniff's last major assignment was as editor of the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune...