Word: khrushchevism
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...main blast virtually destroyed the few remaining hopes that Moscow might agree to a ban on nuclear-weapons testing. To President Kennedy's warning that the U.S. might have to begin testing again if no agreement is reached in Geneva, Khrushchev retorted: "Such threats will frighten no one. We must warn these gentlemen: the moment the United States resumes nuclear explosions, the Soviet Union will promptly start testing its nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union has quite a few devices that have been worked out and need practical testing." In fact, said Khrushchev, echoing an argument often made by protesting...
...Bases? Khrushchev pretended to be especially upset that the U.S. had responded to Russia's peace-loving overtures by raising its military budget. "This," cried Nikita, "may confront the Soviet Union with the necessity of likewise increasing its armament appropriations . . . and the strength of its armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...noisy applause of the dozens of marshals, generals, admirals and war veterans arrayed behind the speaker's stand, Khrushchev repeated his grim warning of changes to come for West Berlin, suggesting that these really were needed to safeguard world peace. "The Soviet people do not want war . . . For the sake of this, toward the end of this year, we, together with other peace-loving states, will sign a peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic . . . We do not threaten West Berlin . . . we propose a free city status...
...from Quadros' flirtations behind the Iron Curtain. They argue that Quadros insists on trade first, before any serious talk of diplomatic exchanges. Of the $2 billion in paper deals drummed up in the East, realistic Brazilians expect only a fraction. Says a senior U.S. diplomat in Rio: "If Khrushchev thinks he can make a sucker out of Quadros, he's badly mistaken." Adds Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos: "Brazil will not recognize the Soviet Union offhand, and will not recognize Red China for two or three years-certainly not until it is accepted at the U.N. We are committed...
...time, Moscow was buzzing with rumors that Premier Georgy Malenkov was on the way out. And although one Nikita Khrushchev, then party first secretary, officially denied the rumors, he pointedly urged his guests to talk to Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin. Ignoring the hint, the Hearst crew featured Khrushchev's official denial-SOVIET SHUNS WAR, DENIES MALENKOV AND HE MAY SPLIT-which ran in Hearst papers just the day before Malenkov resigned, to be replaced by Khrushchev's hand-picked choice: Nikolai Bulganin...