Word: khrushchevism
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Beyond the reach of the Soviet army, only two nations have in effect volunteered themselves into the Moscow orbit, Viet Nam and Cuba. The presence of a Cuban ally so close to American shores tempted Nikita Khrushchev to install missiles there in 1962. The dramatic confrontation of the Cuban missile crisis ended with Khrushchev's backing down, hastening his own downfall and spurring the humiliated Soviet leadership into a costly arms buildup. As for Castro, his first attempts to spread his revolution through Latin America were rebuffed, but now he is trying again in Central America...
...plan had worked-and it came fearfully close-Nikita Khrushchev would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the cold war. Once again a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet...
John Kennedy agreed to remove from Europe forerunners of the Pershing II, while Nikita Khrushchev removed from Cuba the forerunners of the SS-20. That exchange was largely cosmetic. The U.S. had been planning to pull its missiles out of Europe anyway, for its own political and military reasons, while Khrushchev had tried to introduce his missiles in Cuba and, naturally, had intended to leave them there...
...Kissinger at the National Security Council, then at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in private consulting. Now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hyland is known as a scholarly, literate writer of articles and one book, The Fall of Khrushchev...
...apparent explanation: Tereshkova's highly touted odyssey, which seems to have been ordered by Khrushchev personally, was a technical flop. A millworker by profession, she was poorly prepared (she had done only some amateur parachute jumping) and, according to word from Soviet defectors, became severely ill during the flight. Indeed, even as she was being strapped into her Vostok capsule, as a last-minute replacement for the original woman candidate, she complained of feeling sick and dizzy. But with Khrushchev looking over their shoulders, Soviet space officials sent the reluctant Tereshkova...