Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours last week, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru urged Nikita Khrushchev to halt his new program of nuclear tests. But Nehru emerged from the meeting with lines of discouragement etched on his face. "Once again the foul winds of war are blowing," he told a gathering of Indian students and diplomats. "There are atomic tests, and the world grows fearful...
...weapon, the 100-megaton bomb would be sheer waste, for there is no major city in the world that cannot be wiped out with one well-directed 20-meg-aton bomb. But for scare value, such a bomb has its own impact. And Nikita Khrushchev was seeking scare value with a vengeance last week. Even as he rattled his H-bombs, the Red army was announcing extended tours of service for Russian soldiers due to be discharged in coming months...
...Western concessions in Berlin at any cost. In fact, he tacitly admitted as much last week to two visiting left-wing British politicians. He told them frankly that he had resumed nuclear testing to shock the West into negotiations on Germany. And, having just torpedoed the Geneva conference, Nikita added ludicrously that his purpose was also to force the West into disarmament talks...
...they got over their initial indignation, was already manifesting itself in Belgrade, where a chorus of neutralist voices urged a summit meeting between Russia and the West to negotiate their differences-with the implied notion that the West should negotiate something, anything, that would appease the terrible wrath of Nikita Khrushchev...
...magazine is Nikita Khrushchev's reply to persistent criticism of the Kremlin's ill-concealed antiSemitism. For years, the Soviet Premier argued that Russia's Jews were really not interested in Jewish culture, but the 1959 Soviet census destroyed his argument. Of 2,268,000 Russian Jews, nearly half a million listed Yiddish as their native tongue. Almost as if he were admitting his error, Khrushchev authorized the publication of Sovietish Heimland...