Word: khrushchevism
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...test-ban conference met again after a 3½-month recess, the Soviet delegate started off with a belligerence that appeared to rip apart the fragile little structure of agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word that Khrushchev no longer cared about a summit meeting. And from behind the Iron Curtain drifted reports that Khrushchev was planning to use this week's meeting of the Warsaw Pact (the Communist version of NATO) to get the cooled-off Berlin cauldron boiling again. Big Stick. Khrushchev was obviously engaging...
Soft Talk. Since Khrushchev had little to lose by negotiation under such terms, he might well decide to negotiate. At week's end Foreign Minister Gromyko asked for a conference with the President, was granted time for this Monday. Kennedy, meanwhile, got in touch with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in the West Indies en route to the U.S., and the two met on Sunday in Key West...
...important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold-war commander in chief...
...Serious." Behind the veil of quiet diplomacy, the President opened a second front-trying to talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues until...
Mirage No. 1: Khrushchev sometimes has to carry out policies he does not believe in to placate the tough guys in high Soviet councils...