Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, nobody was content to leave it at that, in a world that speaks of diplomatic illnesses and remembers Khrushchev's phony toothache during Macmillan's Russian trip. If Nikita was not really sick, no known external situation seemed to require him to postpone his French trip, and the explanation had to lie in an internal crisis, or trouble provoked by his Chinese partners. He had been gadding about so much lately that something might well require his presence in the Kremlin to help resolve...
...week's end came the deflating word from Moscow: Nikita was "immobilized by an attack of grippe and would not be in condition to be in Paris the 15th of March...
Politely, Moscow suggested that the visit be rescheduled as soon as possible after the "seven or ten days" that it would take Nikita to shake off the virus. No less politely, De Gaulle sent along "his sincere wishes" for Khrushchev's prompt recovery...
...French policemen. Once inside, the cops informed their victims-refugees from a score of nations-that they had 20 minutes to dress and pack for an enforced trip to Corsica. At the request of Soviet officials, the French government had decided to clear Metropolitan France of "potential assassins" before Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Paris. And presumably they would now have to wait out Khrushchev's postponement as well...
...revolt-ridden North Celebes, and has been on the police blacklists for some time (his brother was under arrest there for suspected dealings with the anti-Communist rebels). Government officials gulped even more uncomfortably on learning that Mauker had been one of the Indonesian pilots to fly escort for Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet leader came to visit Sukarno last month...