Word: khrushchevism
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Even after the Russians began talking about "peaceful coexistence," they were still ready to seize every opportunity, as, for instance, in 1961, when they tried to spread the cold war to Africa during the Congo crisis. TIME doubted then that Khrushchev was prepared for "really serious intervention" and, as this week's cover story makes clear, the continent's major problems still do not stem from Communism. And of course, the Russians tried again in Cuba. After they were decisively repulsed, an event described by Britain's Harold Macmillan as one of the great turning points...
...delegation from Communist Rumania led by Premier Ion Maurer showed up in Peking last week, and the West's Kremlinologists were wondering why. Not since Nikita Khrushchev him self traveled to Red China in 1959 had such a high-level European Communist mission made the trip...
...made on behalf of the Soviets in order to show the Red bloc that Moscow was more reasonable than Peking. As evidence, the experts pointed out that the Soviet Ambassador to Bucharest had seen the Rumanians off at the airport, and that the delegation had wired fraternal greetings to Khrushchev as their plane entered Soviet airspace...
...campaign emphasized that the Soviet drive against God has been hardly more successful than Khrushchev's farm program. It is 46 years since the revolution, and yet the Russian Orthodox Church still claims 50 million members in a population of 226 million; in addition, there are at least 25 million Moslems, 3.5 million Jews, and uncounted thousands who have been converted from nonbelief by the Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses...
...meet all the people I am champion of." Carefully attired in diplomatic black and surrounded by his ubiquitous Black Muslim advisers (wherever Cassius went, Malcolm X was sure to go), he strode boldly into the delegates' lounge-instantly creating what one observer described as "the biggest sensation since Khrushchev took off his shoe." Complained Turkish Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu: "They're more interested in Cassius than in Cyprus." Delegates lined up to shower him with invitations to visit their countries. "We're proud of you. Come whenever you can," beamed Liberian Ambassador Christie W. Doe. "Thank...