Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before his flight to Vienna, President John Kennedy made it clear to the U.S. that his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev was to be a size-up instead of a summit, a time for appraisal rather than for decisions. The President was dead right. When he flew back to Washington last week-bone-tired and pained by a back injury-Kennedy faced the same old and annoying cold war conflicts. Nothing seemed to have changed...
...details of President Kennedy's closed-door sessions with Nikita Khrushchev, as they became known last week, made for a dramatic picture of the two most powerful antagonists of the cold war matching wits and wills...
...treaty banning explosive nuclear tests. No progress was made. For that matter, none had been made during the exasperating 31 months of discussion. And none was likely to be made in the foreseeable future. Said President Kennedy in his television report to the U.S. on his Vienna sessions with Nikita Khrushchev: "No hope emerged with respect to the deadlocked Geneva conference seeking a treaty to ban nuclear tests . . . Our hopes for an end to nuclear tests, for an end to the spread of nuclear weapons, and for some slowing down of the arms race, have been struck a serious blow...
There are all too many reasons why Nikita Khrushchev might want the Geneva talks to continue unsuccessfully forever. The U.S. has a much bigger and better variety of nuclear warheads than the Soviets. The Soviets can only close that gap by continuing with secret tests while U.S. tests stand suspended. Central Russia has plenty of underground salt mines where nuclear explosions would make hardly a quiver on a far-off seismograph. And at least one top U.S. official says that the West has lately recorded some "pretty big bangs" inside the U.S.S.R.-although whether they were of nuclear nature remains...
Recognizing this, President John F. Kennedy went to meet Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna hoping to find some give in the Soviet position. Khrushchev would not budge. "This is a basic Soviet position and not negotiable," said Nikita firmly. He was frank to admit that it all began last year, when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was able to maneuver the Reds out of the Congo. It was at the shoe-banging U.N. General Assembly session in September that Khrushchev first broached the troika idea, demanding that the U.N. Secretariat be run not by one man, but by a team...