Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the bulletin crackled out of Moscow, the public consciousness and the front pages of the U.S. were occupied largely by domestic matters-the closing battles in Congress, the Teamster scandals, inflation. The bulletin: Soviet Russia had fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, said the Kremlin, adding ominously that "the results obtained show that it is possible to direct missiles into any part of the world...
Back home the misguided tour stirred up most editorialists and most vocal politicos. "They have played into the hands of the Kremlin propagandists," said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "They have fallen for a come-on gimmick," added Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield. "My remedy," Vermont's liberal Republican Senator George D. Aiken summed up, "would be a good spanking for every one of them...
...total war are turned on the enemy; either he must settle for setback or risk the certain destruction that would come with all-out war. Thus the small inroads of aggression are stopped before they can add up to an all-or-nothing world crisis. "The fact that the Kremlin may stand to lose from a limited nuclear war does not mean that it could profit from all-out war," says Kissinger. "On the contrary, if our retaliatory force is kept at a proper level and our diplomacy shows ways out of a military impasse short of unconditional surrender...
East German Communists were all set to put out the welcome mat for the touring Kremlin leaders last week, but no one knew what to say on it. The satirical weekly Eulenspiegel (circ. 400,000) went to press too far in advance with a cartoon of B. and K. arriving in tubby tandem. East Berlin diplomats received handsome engraved invitations to a reception honoring B. and K. For 24 hours after Moscow's last-minute announcement that Premier Bulganin would not be a member of the party, one long red banner strung across an East Berlin building said simply...
Starting with these advantages, Left-Winger Jagan, 39, is acting like a moderate as he campaigns with his wife Janet, once a Chicago Young Communist Leaguer. He denies that he is a Communist, although government officials are convinced he keeps in close touch with the Kremlin. He talks of forming a postelection coalition with a former ally, Forbes Burnham, 36, a mercurial Negro lawyer with Communist leanings of his own, whose splinter wing of the P.P.P. may win up to four seats...