Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tradition, Poles are rebellious, individualistic, and Western-minded in culture as in faith. With his courageous defiance of Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka raised hopes that Poland might one day break free from the Kremlin's bonds...
...party officials, the idea of a "Polish road to socialism" is no longer mentioned, for the chosen road leads mainly to Moscow. In foreign policy decisions, Poland is scarcely more independent than the Ukraine or Byelorussia. Of all the Soviet bloc leaders, Gomulka was first with lavish congratulations for Nikita Khrushchev after he torpedoed the summit conference last year. Last month Warsaw hastened to rename a street and a collective farm after Patrice Lumumba, following Moscow's big propaganda blast in memory of the Congolese "symbol of anti-colonialism." Two "Freedoms." In exchange for this kind of cooperation...
...time is not far off, said Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last week, "when the first spaceship with a man on board will soar into space." He and his audience assumed, of course, that the first spaceman will be a Soviet astronaut riding a Soviet satellite. Most U.S. authorities tend to agree, admitting that the Soviet man-in-space program is well ahead of the U.S.'s. The Russians might well be able to put a man into orbit this week and bring him back in reasonably good condition. The five-ton satellites in which they have orbited dogs weigh...
...work, the Administration's new policymakers are ready to admit that in foreign policy no rule is rigid, no solution is easy, no plan is foolproof, and no worthwhile policy is entirely devoid of risk. With the last point especially in mind, President Kennedy last week sent Nikita Khrushchev a straight-from-the-shoulder message through Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson Jr. The U.S.. said the President, views Laos as a test case of Soviet intentions (see FOREIGN NEWS), is willing to work toward a genuine settlement, or just as willing to throw its power into Southeast Asia to safeguard...
Among the many issues that divide East and West. Laos is one of the most combustible. With this in mind. President John F. Kennedy sent Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson back to Moscow last month with a cold-eyed bargain to offer Nikita Khrushchev...