Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Christian Herter's word as he went down the latest list of Soviet provocations with President Eisenhower at the summer White House in Newport, R.I. last week. "Recklessly irresponsible," he said publicly at his midweek press conference. The U.S. and its allies shared a growing concern: Was Nikita Khrushchev deluded by 1960 U.S. electioneering talk into thinking that he could stretch his risks until a new Administration takes over next January? Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan shot off a letter telling Khrushchev, "I simply do not understand what your purpose is," warned him against the danger...
Secretary Herter believes that Khrushchev is bluffing. Other State Department experts believe that Khrushchev is of no mind to risk the dangers of nuclear war but is using cheap talk to show Communists the world over that nobody can be more militant than Nikita. One sign of a bluff called came last week as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a resolution calling for Belgian troops to withdraw "speedily" from the Congo. Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov grinned sheepishly and stopped protesting that the Congolese wanted military help only from the peace-loving Soviets. As open laughter sounded...
...growing favorite in Pravda, official handicap sheet of the Soviet Communist hierarchy: mop-haired Mikhail A. Suslov, 58, party braintruster and veteran member of the Presidium. Three times last week Pravda quoted lengthily from "important" Suslov speeches. Unsurprising contents of all three: fawning eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity...
Just when everything seems to be going his way, Nikita Khrushchev has a habit of overreaching himself. Now he has obliged over Cuba. Until he brandished his rockets and mouthed his threats, the quarrel between the U.S. and Cuba met with a disquieting passivity in Latin America. Though governments might know better, their people generally side with Castro. Then Khrushchev proclaimed that any attack on Cuba would bring instant retaliation against the U.S. by Soviet intercontinental missiles. The Monroe Doc trine, he said, is dead, and should be buried "so that it should not poison the air by its decay...
...Vice President Nixon was stoned in Peru and Venezuela; the following month the U.S. joined an international coffee study program. Now, in offering $500 million worth of help for social needs, the U.S. has made a similar about-face, on the heels of new fears that the influence of Nikita Khrushchev may spread across the neglected hemisphere. The trouble with this policy is that the U.S. pays the bills but its enemies get the credit for spurring it into action...