Word: khrushchevism
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...results of Khrushchev's destalinization drive, which began in 1956, are still shaking the Communist world; "re-stalinization," a return to despotic control by Moscow, is not impossible, but could be accomplished only through violent upheaval. Thus the notion that the U.S. now deals with a totally new form of Communism is widely accepted. Among
...radio station in Cologne. This meant fresh copy from the telegraph office, and the late-shift operator dutifully bestirred himself to see what was coming in. The message he read jolted him down to his half soles. TODAY, LATE IN AFTERNOON, announced Telex No. 2, FIRST MINISTER OF U.S.S.R. KHRUSHCHEV DIED SURPRISINGLY AT 20:19 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME OF HEPHOCAPALYTIROSISES. The message was signed TASS/ASAHI BONN-an unusual signature apparently signifying that the information had come from Tass, the Russian news agency, and had been picked up by a Bonn correspondent for Tokyo's daily Asahi Shimbun. Within minutes...
...Nikita Khrushchev, of course, was not dead. Nor had Tass said he was. What, then, had happened...
Within minutes, D.P.A. flashed a blitz message-KHRUSHCHEV DEAD-to its 1,290 newspaper and radio-TV clients, chased that five minutes later with the brief text-now embellished with a Moscow dateline-that it had received from the radio station. The A.P., U.P.I., and most other wire services feverishly started checking Moscow, leaving Reuters as the only major agency that relayed the heavily qualified bulletin: KHRUSHCHEV REPORTED DEAD BUT REPORTS UNCONFIRMED...
...laid to rest when it finally reached Tass General Director Dimitri Goryunov in Moscow, who called it "foolish nonsense." Within 15 minutes, D.P.A. was backtracking: ACHTUNG EDITORS: PLEASE DO NOT USE. Next morning the report made nothing but anticlimactic headlines, such as the London Daily Herald's: KHRUSHCHEV DEAD? NO, HE'S SIPPING VODKA...