Word: khrushchevism
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...Khrushchev, Kennedy told newsmen and the nation over television, had agreed to get his bombers out of Cuba within 30 days (just why it would take 30 days remained unclear, and no one asked). That being the case, Kennedy was ordering that the naval blockade of Cuba be lifted (just why it was being lifted before the planes were actually removed was also not made clear...
...achieved a complete victory in Cuba, the Soviet Union had suffered a stunning setback. Just as significant as Nikita Khrushchev's backdown in the face of firmness was the fact that the Cuba crisis had heartened the Western alliance while helping to splinter the Communist world...
...days, messages had sped back and forth between Washington and Moscow; White House aides proudly let it be known that it now took only an hour and a half for a written communication to leave Kennedy's desk and land on Khrushchev's. The contents of many of those messages remains undisclosed, but it is certain that Kennedy at one point told Khrushchev that the U.S. would have to take new and perhaps drastic action...
...Khrushchev's new retreat could, from a U.S. viewpoint, only be called progress. But there remained room for much more progress. Still in Cuba were Russian nationals-and for the first time, Kennedy described them as "ground combat units." More importantly, when Kennedy had first announced his quarantine of Cuba, he made it perfectly plain that on-site inspection was the only way to make sure that Soviet missiles had really been removed. But Castro, despite Khrushchev's pledge to let U.N. inspectors into Cuba, remained obdurate. Therefore, said Kennedy at his press conference, the U.S., even while...
...bitterness of war. Most Moslems seem to be aware that U.S. surplus food, though little publicized, is supplying three-quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What is reality?" A government official in Algiers asked the question last week, but did not answer. Instead...