Word: khrushchevism
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...country," he said in last week's televised speech to the nation, "anyone can buy maps and aerial photographs showing our cities, our dams, our plants, our highways-indeed, our whole industrial and economic complex. We know Soviet attaches regularly collect this information. Last fall Chairman Khrushchev's train passed no more than a few hundred feet from an operational ICBM. in plain view from his window." But openness also has its advantages. It fosters self-scrutiny and public criticism and free speech-more effective restraints against corruption, inefficiency and injustice than any secret police...
...Pilot Francis Gary Powers? Like any other U.S. citizen in trouble in a foreign country, he is entitled to all the help his Government can give him-but as of this week, that has been very little. The State Department has made four attempts. On May 6, the day Khrushchev announced that a U.S. plane had been shot down. the U.S. embassy in Moscow delivered to the Soviet Foreign Ministry a note asking for details about both plane and pilot. No answer. On May 10, after Khrushchev announced that Powers was alive, another note asked permission to see him. Again...
...anti-security pact, and at week's end there were signs that the public was getting tired of the Socialist demonstrators. Independent newspapers, sharply hostile to the government earlier in the week, were critical of Asanuma's antics at the embassy. Snorted Asahi: "Asanuma behaved like Nikita Khrushchev." When word arrived from Washington that President Eisenhower was still determined to go through with the visit to Tokyo so long as Japan's invitation still stood, the Premier sent reassurances that "the greater part of the Japanese people will welcome Eisenhower from the bottom of their hearts...
...slick, self-confident Armenian, Mikoyan has shown less public reverence for Khrushchev than any other second-rank Russian leader. On one occasion during Khrushchev's 1955 visit with Marshal Tito, his Yugoslav hosts watched in open-mouthed disbelief as the bull-like Nikita and the wiry Anastas whiled away a few idle minutes scuffling about in a mock wrestling match. For all his flipness toward the boss, Mikoyan has always voted with Khrushchev in Kremlin disputes, has been one of the strongest advocates inside Russia's ruling Presidium of Khrushchev's policy of easier relations with...
...Mikoyan was slated for the stageby-stage degradation that in Khrushchev's Russia has replaced Stalin's bullet in the neck as the approved Kremlin method of liquidation, the reason might well be his conspicuous association with the detente policy. Perhaps Khrushchev had offered Mikoyan as a sacrifice to Moscow's hard liners to divert their wrath from himself...