Word: khrushchevism
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...word has been passed at the State Department that henceforth it would be well to discard the term "Mr. K." for Khrushchev, since there now happen to be two Mr. K.s in the forefront of world affairs...
Hammarskjold's new plan was full of dangerous risks. The major problem was how to prevent any further meddling by outsiders. The U.S. was prepared to admonish Belgium against contributing any more bombs, planes or pilots to Tshombe. But the real danger was Soviet Russia. Was Nikita Khrushchev sufficiently eager for warmer relations with the U.S. to agree to keep hands off in the Congo? Russia's first big grab had been halted last September. But, though Kasavubu and Mobutu had ordered the Russians out, the Russians have gone on clandestinely helping pro-Lumumba forces...
Ever since Nikita Khrushchev steamed, steaming, into New York harbor last September to dress down the U.N. General Assembly, the world has buzzed with reports that a Soviet attempt to mark the occasion by rocketing a man into orbit ended in the death of the would-be astronaut. Last week in Washington, the story was hotter and more circumstantial than ever...
...that the capsule had failed to separate from its rocket, roasting the astronaut alive. By Ghali's account (TIME, Dec. 19), it was this failure, not the "airplane accident" reported by Moscow, that accounted for the death last October of Soviet Missile Chief Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin: when Khrushchev returned from New York, he berated Nedelin so severely that the marshal committed suicide...
...perished on the launching pad or while the rocket was soaring into space-and meanwhile a new mystery was in the making. Four Russian missile tracking ships were spotted on picket duty in the Pacific, deployed in a vast diamond pattern that has been observed only once before-when Khrushchev was on his way to the U.N. But in Moscow, the scientific secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Yevgeny Fedorov, solemnly warned last week: "Much time is still needed to ensure complete safety for man in space flight...