Word: khrushchevism
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...Rogers call for an international treaty against terrorism. Fearing attacks even inside the U.N., bodyguards sat close to some foreign ministers scattered among the 131 delegations; gallery visitors were closely screened and carefully watched. Vulnerable figures like Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban moved amid the tightest security since Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.N. in 1960. In spite of that clear and present evidence of the insidious, pervasive nature of terrorism, Assembly delegates gave only a palsied response to Rogers' proposals for doing something about...
...very un-Japanese." But popular magazines revere him as a reincarnation of Taiko, a peasant-bred warrior who rose to the top samurai rank in the 16th century. To Western journalists in Tokyo, who are used to dealing with faceless and unfathomable bureaucrats, Tanaka is a godsend, the earthy Khrushchev of Japanese politics...
...since Nikita Khrushchev took his missiles out of Cuba in 1962 has any Russian military departure been as momentous as Egypt's abrupt expulsion of Soviet advisers. Yet by last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat must have been puzzled by the reaction-or lack of it-of those countries that stood to gain the most from the Soviet eviction. Premier Golda Meir of Israel had responded merely by reiterating her long-standing demand for direct negotiations. Washington was silent on direct White House orders. Even France's President Georges Pompidou turned down an urgent request from...
...camps. At the age of 14, he was swept up in the mass arrests of 1937, the year his father, Major General lona Yakir, was executed during Joseph Stalin's purge of the Red Army. Pyotr Yakir was released after 17 years and rehabilitated as part of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign in 1956. It is rare-and therefore especially ominous-for the Soviet authorities to rearrest a former inmate of a Stalinist labor camp...
...moved through a succession of key assignments including sports editor, London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, and Khrushchev Remembers. He also expanded LIFE'S account of the Apollo 11 mission into a book, First on the Moon...