Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength of the Socialists and labor unions. Hassan promptly shifted tactics. Leading the Moroccan delegation to last autumn's meeting of the United Nations, Hassan lined up solidly with the Communists on a series of key votes- Red China, the Congo, Cuba. He had a private huddle with Nikita Khrushchev, who amiably promised Hassan anything he wanted. The first down payment: twelve MIG-17 jet fighters and two MIG-15 trainers now based on a Moroccan airstrip just 15 miles from Nouasseur, the biggest U.S. overseas air base (scheduled to be given up in 1963). At last count, some...
Since they met last, the Congo had come unstuck, and the U.N. had shown its helplessness there. Nikita Khrushchev was not coming this time (he sent Gromyko instead), but the Soviet Union's vituperative attacks on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, and its near refusal to recognize his existence, demoralized everyone. Said one staffer: "Everybody here from Executive Assistant Andrew Cordier on down wants to resign. The Congo has done...
Proof quickly came that Stevenson's fears were well grounded. In Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser defiantly announced that the U.A.R. would continue to give arms and aid to Gizenga as the "legitimate government."* And in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet government was "prepared, together with other states friendly toward the Republic of the Congo," to supply Gizenga with aid, assistance and help to restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced...
...Nikita Khrushchev is not to be conned that way. Khrushchev figures that he will get a summit meeting with Kennedy not because of how much or how little he smiles but simply because the sheer weight of Russia in today's world makes a summit meeting necessary sooner or later...
Publication of this novel was held up for two years in the Soviet Union because of its "ideological deviations." Reportedly, it took Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism...