Word: khrushchevism
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...Soviet press agency Novosti. Now he'll be reporting what Daddy and his friends do from the same building on Moscow's Pushkin Square where Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina does her corresponding. Presumably they both will scoop Julia Petrova, a Novosti reporter whose grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, is not a very good news source any more...
...reporter who plays ball reaps some rewards. Tips come to him from Russian journalists, who have usually been put up to it by their editors. In this way, Jaffe was the first Western correspondent to learn of Khrushchev's ouster. The leaks are often dubious. In the spring of 1964, word went out from a West German wire service that Khrushchev was dead. The story was picked up by papers around the world. Later, the Germans explained that the leak had originated with the Russian news service, Tass. Suspicious correspondents decided that the Central Committee, already scheming to depose...
...China as the real menace to the West to the question of a new NATO commander, and saying breezily to Kennedy: "I suppose it should be a Russian." Here, again, is Kennedy telling a friend how difficult it was, short of a showdown, to convince Russia's Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. would not let anybody push it around. "That son-of-a-bitch won't pay any attention to words," said Kennedy. "He has to see you move...
...Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...
...change his image a little. "I am not," he protests, "a very charitable man." Nevertheless, he set up a $14 million foundation for education in Africa. In 1963, he celebrated the first birthday of his color supplement by flying a group of British businessmen to Moscow to meet Khrushchev. "Under our two systems," Thomson told Khrushchev, "I am a capitalist and have come up, and you're a Communist and have come up." Thomson takes his self-appointed role as a broker between East and West so seriously that he went to Moscow again last September to have...