Word: khrushchevism
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...light of the prompt Russian retreat, one can only surmise that Khrushchev deliberately created the crisis in order to test American determination, and that having satisfied himself of its firmness, he quickly backed down...
...first flush relief at Khrushchev's back-down, it is all too easy to forget that the United States got itself into the crisis. The Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations closed off, one by one, avenues of conciliation and negotiation with Castro, invested the Cuban revolution with a significance-the wrong significance at that-far beyond its real meaning, and convinced themselves and the entire country that the establishment of a Socialist dictatorship in Cuba constituted a danger which ultimately could be dealt with only by force...
Premier Nikita Khrushchev yesterday ordered Soviet officers to stop all work on Cuban rocket bases and to make the necessary arrangements for shipping missiles now on the island of Cuba back to the Soviet Union...
...Khrushchev added that he was ready to have representatives of the U.N. "verify the dismantling of these {weapons{." In his letter to President Kennedy, he also called for an end of the U.S. blockade of Cuba...
President Kennedy accepted the Soviet leader's proposals late in the afternoon, rocket removal must be carried out in detail. He said Khrushchev's decision made it possible for both nations to "step back from danger...