Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loss in Laos. Back in March, the President spoke determinedly of a U.S. "response" if the Russians failed to halt their aggression-by-proxy in Laos. Declared he: "No one should doubt our resolution." But Nikita Khrushchev obviously did. He stalled off Kennedy's proposed cease-fire for five weeks, stepped un the Communist Pathet Lao's guerrilla offensive. By the time Khrushchev finally agreed to a cease-fire last week, the Communist troops controlled about half of Laos. Even after the British-Russian announcement of a cease-fire agreement, the rebels stayed on the offensive. When...
After weeks of deliberate Russian stalling, word came last week that Nikita Khrushchev had finally agreed to a ceasefire. Laos' peripatetic Prince Souvanna Phouma, after a daylong talk with Khrushchev himself, happily flew back toward Laos, proclaiming that the cease-fire would become effective as soon as he arrived...
Instead, Hoxha went home to start his own kind of cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at the Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland...
...Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah) sees enemies everywhere. He accuses neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece of planning to partition Albania between them, and he jailed an admiral of the Albanian navy (four subchasers, six minesweepers) as a collaborator in the farfetched plot. More recently he has developed a paranoid fear of Nikita Khrushchev. He apparently suspects that Khrushchev might try to bring Yugoslavia back into the Moscow fold by offering Tito a free hand to take over Albania. Hoxha has found one dependable ally, who is a safe 3,000 miles away-Red China. Alone among the European satellites, Albania openly sides...
...host was in an ebullient vacation mood. Nikita Khrushchev met his guests, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lippmann, at the gate of his Black Sea villa, and for the next eight hours he filled them with food and wine, battered them with talk and badminton (Khrushchev and a lady press aide v. the Lippmanns). By then, the 71-year-old columnist was bushed: "We insisted on leaving in order to go to bed." He flew off to record his second private audience in three years with the Soviet Premier.* Between the wine and badminton, Lippmann's ear had caught enough...