Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the third little pig of legend, Russia's new leadership recognizes the wisdom of building in brick. Nikita Khrushchev for years had huffed and puffed in favor of prefabricated concrete slabs, relegating the lowly brick to minor status in the nation's crash housing program. But last week, when the new economic plans of Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were disclosed, the brick was back in the planners' priorities. That alone would not keep the wolf from the door, but some of the other decisions announced would certainly help...
...three days last week Russia's all-powerful Central Committee met be hind closed doors, giving the Kremlinologists in every Western chancellery another round in their perennial guessing game. When Izvestia delayed publication for some hours, an event that had not happened since the committee ousted Nikita Khrushchev last October, the mounting speculation even shook stock prices in Wall Street...
...since Khrushchev's lieutenants had deposed him, and this glimpse of him quite naturally raised a lot of questions. How was he faring? Where was he going? What had he been doing lately? Did his reappearance in public signal a possible return to some kind of office? Nikita himself would not or-more likely-could not answer. To requests for an interview, he snapped: "Not now, some time." Still, most of the answers were plain...
...might, but did the Kremlin? Khrushchev's freedom is clearly no more than nominal. Touched as he was by the crowd's interest, Nikita could not talk freely. Obviously, he is on a leash, being paraded at the Kremlin's will and for its own purposes. Right now at least, those seem to be merely to reassure indignant European Communists-and the world at large-that Nikita is alive, healthy, and not being treated too badly...
Political leaders of the U.S.S.R. appeared on TV applauding the flight. But there was none of the gay banter of one of Nikita Khrushchev's conversations with orbiting cosmonauts. Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev picked up a white telephone and did his leaden best. "We applaud you," he said to the Voskhod II. "We await you in Moscow." Congratulatory messages arrived from all over the world. The Pope and President Johnson both offered applause...