Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis...
Taking a leaf from the book of his democratic rivals, Nikita Khrushchev went before Moscow's TV cameras for a fireside chat of his own. In the bare, floodlighted studio, he seemed a little lost without an audience, speaking more slowly, peering at his manuscript, pausing often to gulp at the glass of mineral water at his side. On disarmament, on Laos, on Communism's future, what Khrushchev said added little to the world's knowledge of the Kremlin's inner thinking. But on the subject of Berlin, his voice had a new take...
Thus, as in November 1958, the West by implication again faced a six-month "deadline" on the security of its travel and supply routes to its isolated West Berlin outpost; for, as Nikita put it, "after the treaty, any countries wishing to maintain ties in West Berlin will have to reach agreement with the government of the German Democratic Republic." Ominously but somewhat ambiguously, he added: "If any country should violate the peace and cross the borders of others -by land, air or water-it will assume full responsibility for the consequences of aggression and will be dealt the necessary...
...heady days after Suez, when Russian MIGs were uncrated in Cairo and Nikita Khrushchev grandly picked up the tab for the Aswan Dam, such a turn of affairs could not have been imagined. But in Cairo last week, big red headlines hit the street. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ATTACKS US, cried one daily. RUSSIA TRIES BLACKMAIL, screamed another. Khrushchev, who used to boast of Egyptian-Russian relations as an example of how the Communists could get along with another nation "whose social system is different from ours," had abruptly turned his venom on Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...recent visit to Canada (see THE NATION), Reston slyly suggested quite another diagnosis: "The official line in Washington is that President Kennedy hurt his back digging holes for trees in Canada, but there is another theory that he did it straining in disbelief at what he heard from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. If this theory is correct, it is not surprising, for the little comrade asked for the world with a ribbon around it, and blandly argued that Mr. Kennedy had no reasonable alternative but to accept his thesis...