Word: khrushchevism
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THERE HAVE been 11 summits since September 1959, when President Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev held a Camp David chat. Since, a few summits have centered on the signing of pre-arranged agreements, which conveniently leave summiteers nothing to discuss. In 1972, for instance, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the ABM treaty and in 1979 Carter and Brezhnev agreed to SALT II. Other summits, in 1959, 1967 and 1985, have not centered on anything...
...summit can be something other than just a harmless "getting to know you" social event or a public signing. In 1961 Soviet leader Khrushchev left a stormy summit with Kennedy thinking the American leader was a vacillating and indecisive man. Many historians argue that this experience led Khrushchev to believe he could place missiles in Cuba without worrying about an American response. Indirectly, but yet importantly, the 1961 summit almost led to a nuclear...
Moviegoers first heard that terse exchange in a London theater on Oct. 6, 1962. The same week Johnny Carson became host of the Tonight show, and Pope John XXIII adorned the cover of TIME. Two weeks later, Khrushchev and Kennedy would go eyeball to eyeball in a dispute over Cuban missiles. So who cared about the world premiere of the first James Bond film, or the introduction of * Sean Connery as Her Majesty's hunkiest secret servant? Who knew...
...there, then, any reason to believe that Gorbachev's talk of "mutual security" is more credible? In theory at least, there is one significant difference. The Khrushchev-Brezhnev doctrine proclaimed that the armed truce between the superpowers did not mean the end of the global "war" between Communism and capitalism. As Khrushchev said in 1963, "Peaceful coexistence not only does not exclude the class struggle, but is itself a form of the class struggle between victorious socialism and decrepit capitalism." Khrushchev also put this point in more typically blunt terms: "We will bury you." The "wars of national liberation" that...
Gorbachev sounds very different from Khrushchev. As he told an international peace group earlier this month, "Every nation has its own interests, and it is necessary to understand this reality. Refusing to recognize that is denying peoples the right of free choice." He also declared, in last year's Party Congress speech, "It is inadmissible and futile to encourage revolution from abroad...