Word: khrushchevism
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...press conference, President Kennedy replied: "It is a question which waits for us before the end of the road is reached, and it would be a very difficult one." Summitry: Inevitably, the talk about possible breakthroughs led toward proposals for person-to-person conversations at the summit. Nikita Khrushchev was already insisting that the Geneva disarmament meeting be turned into a summit session. The U.S. and Britain last week sent mild refusals, saying in effect: not until the delegates to the Geneva conference can report some evidence of progress toward a disarmament agreement...
...came the "Spirit of Geneva" and in 1959 came the "Spirit of Camp David"-yet the cold war continued. In 1960 came a summit meeting in Paris-which Khrushchev deliberately torpedoed with his yowlings about the U-2 incident...
...June 1961 came the Vienna meeting between Khrushchev and President Kennedy; Khrushchev used the occasion to lay down anew his ultimatum about Berlin...
...acknowledged at his Moscow trial that as an aerial agent he had performed "very ill service." Had Powers been brainwashed? Why had he not fired the charges that would have destroyed his plane? How high was he flying when hit-and what had hit him? Was it, as Khrushchev claimed, a Russian rocket at 68,000 ft.? Or did he have a flameout...
Moscow last week seemed strangely quiet, becalmed by a news and diplomatic lull unparalleled in recent years. Virtually all the top Kremlin leaders were away from the capital, most of them probably down on the Black Sea coast talking business at Nikita Khrushchev's winter vacation spot. Hence the West's surprise when Moscow abruptly decided to heat up the Berlin crisis again with an ominous threat to the Allies' three air corridors that lead over Communist territory to the surrounded city...