Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search. For ten days, until Khrushchev returned from a junket to Austria, they remained silent about the attack. Then they announced that they had shot the plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...
...Nikita Khrushchev's desire to meet and play summitry with Jack Kennedy is no secret. Ever since Kennedy's election, "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., has been urging the advantages of a Khrushchev-Kennedy meeting. Kennedy, however, had set himself against playing Nikita's game. He was backed in his resolve by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, whose low opinion of summitry was expressed in a Foreign Affairs article last April: "Summit diplomacy is to be approached with the wariness with which a prudent physician prescribes a habit-forming drug-a technique...
Then, at week's end, came U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson to express his personal opinion that Jack Kennedy would be "happy" to meet with Khrushchev if Nikita attends the United Nations General Assembly sessions in March-a suggestion that was greeted with cheers in the Russian press. And State Secretary Rusk followed up with a "clarification" of the statement he had made earlier in the week. "We do intend to use our ambassadors abroad fully," said Rusk, "but that does not mean that we are rejecting the possibility of other types of meetings." Thus, said Rusk...
...said, "is that Americans will think the Russians have really changed, that they're softening, that the worst is over." It would be just as bad if the Administration itself, however happy about effecting the release of the American airmen, were to place too much stock in Nikita Khrushchev's cold war gambit...
Ever since Nikita Khrushchev steamed, steaming, into New York harbor last September to dress down the U.N. General Assembly, the world has buzzed with reports that a Soviet attempt to mark the occasion by rocketing a man into orbit ended in the death of the would-be astronaut. Last week in Washington, the story was hotter and more circumstantial than ever...