Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's "final, firm" decision will probably succeed in discouraging further pressure on him to run in the cause of party unity and loyalty. But the fourth and last Kennedy brother was hardly renouncing the family legacy of active political leadership. At 36, he has many years to build his career and a safe Senate seat as a base...
...nearly as surprising a concession for the Russians to make as it would have been for John F. Kennedy and his Cabinet to have journeyed to Havana for talks during the Cuban missile crisis. Never in the Soviet Union's 50-year history has the entire party leadership traveled abroad. The Russians had at first peremptorily insisted that the Czechoslovaks come to the Soviet Union...
...critical of the party. At the very least, says Harvard Kremlinologist Adam Ulam, the Russians seek "some sort of declaration from the Czechoslovak leaders that they won't let the thing get too far, that they will not tolerate real democracy in the sense of real competition for leadership...
...some time in Russia, an extraordinary manuscript by Sakharov was published in the U.S. by the New York Times. In it, the physicist boldly denounces major aspects of Soviet policy and practice, goes so far as to urge an East-West "convergence" to provide a safe and single world leadership. It is, as Library of Congress Kremlinologist Leon Herman said, "a thunderbolt"-not only for what it says but because of its origin in the very bosom of the Soviet elite...
...eloquent defense of the necessity for intellectual freedom, the physicist is again contemptuous of Soviet leadership. The value of free speech, he says, was "clear to the philosophers of ancient Greece, and hardly anyone nowadays would have any doubts on that score. But after 50 years of complete domination over the minds of an entire nation, our leaders seem to fear even allusions to such a discussion. The crippling censorship of Soviet artistic and political literature has again been intensified. Dozens of brilliant writings cannot see the light...