Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curtain across the world stage rustled and billowed as the cast of characters began to take their places for the most extraordinary political spectacle of modern times. To New York and the United Nations by slow boat came Nikita Khrushchev, with his gallery of satellite rogues trotting at his heels. One by one the other national leaders, of various hues of dependence and independence-Egypt's Nasser, Yugoslavia's Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Cuba's Castro, Ghana's Nkrumah -were due to arrive, all drawn, as was their right, to the General Assembly session where...
...Guest. To make sure his New York propaganda show would not be wasted on run-of-the-mill diplomats, Nikita was also busy last week firing off notes urging the leaders of the neutralist nations to show up at the General Assembly, or stand revealed as no true peace lovers. So far, he had failed with the senior neutralist of them all-India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who still seemed disposed to keep his Sept. 19 date for a state visit to Pakistan. But Ghana...
...that floating committee room, the Baltika, churned and rolled across the Atlantic with Nikita Khrushchev and his claque of Communism's top brass, most pervasive presence aboard was the man who wasn't there-Red China's Mao Tsetung. It is increasingly apparent that, more than the Congo or Cuba, what is chiefly on Khrushchev's mind is his clash with...
...whip among the satellites, demanded that his Communist satraps stand up and be counted. Last week the leaders of Communist North Viet Nam and later Mongolia were duly whipsawed into declaring their support for Khrushchev, and Seoul reported that North Korea's Kim II Sung, getting ready for Nikita's visit next month, had dutifully purged top leaders of the so-called Chinese faction from his government...
...trade was instant and disastrous. In Britain, Finland's best market, Finnish lumber and paper exporters ran into big trouble from Swedish and Norwegian competition, had to drop prices by as much as $5.60 a ton. Kekkonen, never very popular, was soon in bad political trouble. Last week Nikita Khrushchev decided the time had come to drop in and give him a hand...