Word: khrushchevism
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...sent a man into space before we did and began to test the monster nuclear weapons that nobody thought they had. Our planes in the Berlin air corridor were buzzed; the autobahns were blocked. Insurgents consumed large chunks of Laos. The Bay of Pigs adventure was a disaster. Nikita Khrushchev pounded the table at the Vienna summit. The East Germans put up the Berlin Wall...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed so bitterly at the time of the Bay of Pigs, evolved into the realization that sometimes they knew better than he did. "I did not know enough to ask the right questions," he admitted. One night at dinner Kennedy confessed to friends that Khrushchev turned out to be different from any person he had ever met or imagined. J.F.K.'s experience up to then had suggested that Khrushchev would share his fear of a nuclear exchange and pledge himself to do almost anything to avoid it. When he tried the idea on the Soviet...
Despite his angry words and Khrushchev-like fist pounding, Brezhnev conceded that a new SALT accord, based on the 1974 Vladivostok agreement, was still "quite attainable." If that was achieved, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could "move forward to a mutual reduction of armaments." Brezhnev also sketched out a proposal for gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and hinted that the Russians might be receptive to Carter's proposal to limit the international arms trade...
...Khrushchev's visit to China in the fall of 1959, ostensibly to celebrate National Day on the first of October, was tedious and painful. On that occasion Khrushchev announced he would withdraw all his experts from China and pressed the Chinese to pay all their debts. [The Soviets also] told the Chinese they wanted to set up a long-range broadcast station in China. Had they won that argument they would have been able to control China's entire communications
...establish a joint fleet that would have enabled them to dominate all of China's waters, coastal and inland. As a matter of fact, the Chairman agreed to the last proposal, but only on the condition that the Chinese pay for such a system. Chairman Mao told Khrushchev, "This is a matter of principle: otherwise you'll take every thing away...