Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugural music was just fading away in Washington when, across the top of the world, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy") Thompson was summoned to the Kremlin office of Nikita Khrushchev. For two hours Thompson and Khrushchev talked, and within minutes after Thompson emerged into the bitter Russian winter, the diplomatic wires were humming between the capitals of the two great cold war powers...
...Eisenhower-Kennedy transition could well serve to remind the Communist world that beneath the ofttimes deep confiicts of political parties and viewpoints, the U.S. is one nation, indivisible. Nikita Khrushchev, an old hand at fostering divisions within nations, made a point in recent weeks of attacking Eisenhower, stressing that the inauguration of a new President would bring new hopes for U.S.-Russian accommodations. "A new page in U.S. history begins," proclaimed the Soviet newspaper Trud just before the inauguration. But if the page was new, it was a new page of the same book-the book that began on July...
...Nikita Khrushchev spent the week explaining himself...
...Supreme Soviet, chairman of the council of ministers of the great Ukrainian republic, and sheds water like a duck as if nothing has happened. He has caused great harm to the economy of the great republic." The Central Committee agreed that it was everybody's fault but Nikita's, and sternly resolved to expel from the party all those who dreamed up fake figures to conceal the shortfall...
Lest any comrade be misled by his cordial message congratulating new U.S. President Kennedy on his inauguration, Khrushchev added a plain statement: "The No. 1 enemy of the peoples of the world," said Nikita...