Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calculated Leak. Another sign that the heat is temporarily off is Nikita Khrushchev's apparent new willingness to diminish his menaces. At a Kremlin reception, Khrushchev told correspondents that "for the time being, it is not good for Russia and the U.S. to push one another." In a well-planted leak to West German Ambassador Hans Kroll last week, Khrushchev tentatively offered the West a set of modified proposals to end the crisis...
...chimes in the Spassky tower atop a Kremlin gate struck 10 as Nikita Khrushchev, his party leaders and foreign guests filed up the steps to the top of the tomb. Last of all came 80-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, who had publicly apologized for his "antiparty" misdeeds and apparently assumed all was forgiven. An armed guard barred his way. Voroshilov made a second attempt to join his old comrades through a side door of the Mausoleum and was ejected by a plainclothesman. He then stood pathetically beside a white-smocked woman selling ice cream and watched somberly as Defense Minister...
...Nikita Khrushchev, who had stonily ignored Voroshilov's party crashing, chatted with newsmen in his many guises. He was folksy as he confessed to being a "bit tired" after the taxing 22nd Party Congress. He was deferential in describing his readiness for negotiations whenever the West was willing and added, "We can still wait. We are patient." He was bluff and manly on the subject of nuclear testing, agreeing that fallout was harmful, but adding that dropping H-bombs on cities would be a "million times more harmful...
...cleaned-up version of the taunt made in Moscow last year when an enraged Nikita Khrushchev shouted at Hoxha: "Comrade, you have covered me with dung. You will have to wash...
...rupture of the three-year moratorium on nuclear testing, Nikita Khrushchev had forced the U.S.-and the whole free world-to cope with a Pandora's box of questions. What military advance had the Russians achieved by their tests? What could the U.S. hope to gain by resumed atmospheric testing, and how far should it go? Had world reaction to the Russian tests permanently shifted any allegiances? How great is the danger of fallout from testing...