Word: khrushchevism
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...into that nation. He is worried about Berlin, but realizes that the troublemaking initiative there is held by the Communists, and he is determined that the West must maintain its basic rights. He is unwilling to go to the Summit just for propaganda purposes or to size up Nikita Khrushchev ("He was pretty well cased at Vienna"); but he is willing to talk to Khrushchev if the cold war seems on the brink of nuclear conflict or if there seems a substantive chance for progress in easing some basic issues...
Westward Neutral. And yet, seven years of hard fighting and difficult diplomatic maneuvering have made relatively sophisticated men of the F.L.N. political leaders. They know that the Soviet Union's longtime reluctance to recognize their government stemmed from Nikita Khrushchev's fear of offending De Gaulle, whom he hoped to use to split the NATO alliance. They are aware that Red Chinese aid was given more to embarrass the West than to help the F.L.N. Even fiery anticolonialist Dr. Frantz Fanon said contemptuously: "If the Communist powers really cared, they would have made a major effort to help...
...great marble hall where he once bragged of beating U.S. meat and milk output, Nikita Khrushchev last week told Soviet leaders what every Moscow housewife knows. With 12,000,000 more citizens to feed than three years ago, Russian agriculture actually produced less food last year than in 1958 and is lagging so far behind Khrushchev's ambitious targets that it "seriously threatens" the entire seven-year plan. Russians are in no danger of starvation and in fact are better fed than in Stalin's day. But production of grain, sugar beets, vegetables and butter has remained level...
...group, which included Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, released its report in the hope that it might influence the success of the 17-nation disarmament conference which opens in Geneva tomorrow. Their position refutes Soviet Premier Khrushchev's contention that the West refuses to disarm because of possible dangers to its economic stability...
Among Premier Khrushchev's nightmares are America's recent advance in space exploration (and its related publicity), Communist China, the increased unity of Western Europe, the Alliance for Progress, Russia's food shortage, lack of response among Russian youth, and the possibility of an effective United Nations--without the troika plan...