Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME covers have caused as much stir as the Herblock cartoon on the Oct. 3 issue, showing Nikita Khrushchev and his leather-jacketed gang of "East Side Rockets" prowling a New York street near the United Nations Building. Readers liked it; the subjects were understandably silent. Then last week there came a reaction from Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, who was shown on the cover as a trenchcoated observer coolly watching from the sideline as K. and gang prowled. Belgrade's Vecernje Novosti (Evening News) carried a front-page picture of Tito and members of his executive council looking...
...Alignment. In Leopoldville, Western officials and diplomats were frankly bewildered at the strange turn of events. Best guess was that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was reacting to new and compelling pressures. In the face of Nikita Khrushchev's attack in the General Assembly, the new African nations had rallied to the defense of the U.N. and Hammarskjold himself. But the 70-0 Assembly vote upholding Hammarskjold obscured the fact that many Africans still felt that Lumumba was the legitimate head of the Congolese government. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure demanded Lumumba...
...Despite Nikita Khrushchev's insistence that Communists no longer believe in real war, he has no scruples against a war of nerves. Last week East Germany was hard at work trying to throw a scare into West Germany by a series of calculated maneuvers and conspicuous leaks...
...from a month-long visit to Red China and Russia. "Moscow gave a new impetus to our march!" he cried jubilantly. "We are now receiving the full support of Red China." Belkacem Krim, the unofficial F.L.N. observer at the United Nations, reported excitedly on his conferences in Manhattan with Nikita Khru shchev, who had finally given the rebel government "de facto recognition...
...Nikita Khrushchev, fist-waving and shouting interruptions, was startling enough. Last week the prospect loomed that Soviet diplomats the world over may, at the appropriate moment, follow in his shoeless footsteps...