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...newsreels, comically soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe, whacked it on his desk, and the bad-guy boss started to look an awful lot more like a small-time clown...
...whupping us even from the grave. Back in the heyday of communism, the gray bureaucrats in Moscow took great pride in their ability to leave the U.S. in the dust at the Olympics - after all, it was only at the Games that the Soviets could make good on Kruschev's promise that "we will bury...
MOSCOW: Has Boris Yeltsin been hitting the vodka too hard again? Emerging from under a low profile for a meeting with First Deputy premier Anatoly Chubais, the Russian leader made a statement on the Iraq crisis that was surprisingly Kruschev-esque. "By his actions," Yeltsin warned, "Clinton might run into a world war. He is acting too loudly ... We want to make it clear to Clinton that we do not agree with such a policy...
Lloyd said that the splintering of the Soviet Union has created frictions between the new republics. "In a single stroke of the pen," said Lloyd, "Nikita Kruschev signed over the fleet to Ukrainian control. Back then, it didn't matter...
...nobody has seemed to notice. The blaring front-page headlines that announced Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation have disappeared now that the Soviet foreign minister's dire predictions of imminent dictatorship have come true. Just as Kruschev's 1956 invasion of Hungary was overshadowed by the concurrent Suez crisis, the backlash in the Baltics has been buried on page nine, shunted to the background by Bush's moralistic pursuit of his New World Order...