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Florida Force. During the 1961 Berlin crisis, the "first generation" of Discoverer satellites was aloft, and John Kennedy was able to show Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko photographs indicating exactly how few iCBMs the Soviets really had. "I believe," says Klass, "that after Gromyko saw those pictures he persuaded Khrushchev to back down...
...Central Europe. Finally, it would prompt Brandt to seek Bundestag ratification of the nonaggression treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which have been delayed pending a Berlin agreement. Whether such a settlement happens this week or later, the talks have certainly come a long way since the days when Nikita Khrushchev declared that West Berlin was like a "cancerous growth" that ought...
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...