Word: khrushchevism
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Kennedy stuck steadfastly to the key U.S. position: there must be inspection of Cuba by an international group to make sure that all the missiles and bombers were gone. The President read to Mikoyan the parts of Khrushchev's letters, both public and private, in which the Premier spelled out his promise to allow on-site inspection...
Next day. Mikoyan and Rusk lunched and talked for nearly three hours without making any progress. At week's end, Anastas Mikoyan headed home, presumably to report to Khrushchev. Communist ways being what they are, there was no telling what he would say-but he certainly could not claim that he had sold the U.S. any rugs...
...ponies, graze contentedly on the lush grass. Caroline's Welsh terrier, Charlie, skitters happily around the place, and in nice weather lives in a house under the magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...
...Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, where U.S. and Soviet tanks once faced off at point-blank range, Communist border guards last week erected Christmas trees. It was as paradoxical a symbol as any to mark the fourth anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's bold threat to force the West out of the city and sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany...
Even in Moscow there was not a hint of those old familiar ultimatums. A Khrushchev message to East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht pointedly omitted any reference to a separate peace treaty; Izvestia's chief spokesman on Germany, Commentator Nikolai Polyanov, asked "What's next?" in a foreign affairs article, but the question was aimed at other cold war issues. Not once since President Kennedy's firm stand in Cuba, in fact, have the Communists tried their tough stuff at the most critical East-West boundary of them all. For the West it was a lesson...