Word: khrushchevism
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With political storm warnings flying at every threatened point, with forecasters issuing hourly revisions of his probable future course, with experts battening down and shoring up exposed positions against the expected assault, Nikita Khrushchev last week headed across the Atlantic toward New York and the U.N. General Assembly. His decision to come to New York by ship had its bright side. For ten whole days Nikita would presumably be reduced to nothing more than a disembodied presence at the other end of a radio circuit...
...Foot Stomper. For the West, this was a much appreciated relief. Scarcely had Khrushchev returned to Moscow last week from his Finnish jaunt (see below) when he pushed up to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson at a diplomatic reception and blustered that the Soviets had secret information that the NATO nations were planning "a new provocation in September by sending a plane over the Black Sea." Aggressively, he added: "But we are ready and the orders are to shoot it down...
...That's a very serious statement," retorted Thompson. "Do you mean you would shoot down planes flying over international waters in the Black Sea?" Backing off, Khrushchev replied that he only meant Russia would shoot down any planes that flew along Soviet borders. "You send ships along our coasts and planes over Alaska," snapped Thompson. "We aren't interested in Alaska," said Khrushchev piously and then, abruptly, shifted to a renewal of his familiar de mand for a U.S. apology over the U-2 incident. Gesturing as if to stomp on Ambassador Thompson's foot, he declared...
...that floating committee room, the Baltika, churned and rolled across the Atlantic with Nikita Khrushchev and his claque of Communism's top brass, most pervasive presence aboard was the man who wasn't there-Red China's Mao Tsetung. It is increasingly apparent that, more than the Congo or Cuba, what is chiefly on Khrushchev's mind is his clash with...
...West, the squabble may seem merely a falling-out among ideologues. But in reality the dispute has been translated into a bitter competition for high stakes. Western experts who used to discount the Khrushchev-Mao dispute now think it is real, and widening, and may even come to an open break...