Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Onward. Characteristically, Nikita Khrushchev seemed innocently oblivious to the negative response to his long tirade. A patient man in high-stakes game of international Monopoly, he knew as well as anyone else that he had not lost the cold war but just a battle. But it was a decisive battle. Had he come so far, with so much panoply, with so little to offer? There would be new ploys, new attacks as his satellite echoes got into the act. But he was off to a most unimpressive start...
...different directions. Kennedy's main argument in his campaign has been to attack the Republicans for U.S. weaknesses and declining prestige abroad; Nixon has scorned the charge that the U.S. is second best and holds that the nation needs a strong and knowledgeable leader who can deal with Nikita Khrushchev (e.g., Dick Nixon) in the perilous years ahead. With the approach of Baltika to U.S. shores, it became more and more apparent that Khrushchev himself would become a tense campaign issue. And. sure enough. Kennedy and Nixon were soon involved in their own cold...
...chamber to take their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...
...time past, many people, from John Foster Dulles to Nikita Khrushchev, have been inclined to assume that neutralism was the next thing to Communism. In fact, the neutralists are united only by a negative sentiment: Help us, but keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans...
...Blow. Nikita Khrushchev paid last week for not realizing this. He thought he could play on the Africans' hatred for colonialism as a cloak to take over the Congo and set himself up as the champion of all Africa. When crossed, he turned on the U.N. and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who had thwarted him. As the Baltika neared Manhattan, Khrushchev discovered his error...