Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although many pundits feared that Johnson's greatest weakness would be in foreign affairs, he has dealt competently with crises in Panama, Cyprus and Viet Nam. He fielded a coup in Brazil with certainty, dealt evenhandedly with such sticky people and places as Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, Berlin and Communist China...
...eyes; in Asia it looks Western. Both the Russians and the Chinese passionately claim it as their own. On either side of the great split that now divides the Communist world, the disputants exalt Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as their patron and prophet. Lenin looks on as, in his name, Nikita Khrushchev denounces the Chinese as dogmatists, fools, adventurers and warmongers. And Lenin looks on as, in his name, Mao Tse-tung denounces the Russians as revisionists, traitors, bourgeois cowards and capitulationists...
First-Class Lion. As Nikita Khrushchev celebrated his 70th birthday last week, the image of Lenin appeared in yet another prominent place: Nikita's chest. The Order of Lenin was pinned on him by President Leonid Brezhnev. There were other decorations. Outer Mongolia awarded Khrushchev its Order of Suhe-Bator, Czechoslovakia weighed in with the Order of the White Lion, first class, with gold chain, and top orders came from East Germany and Rumania. The congratulations almost recalled the "personality cult" that once surrounded Stalin; they salute Nikita as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy...
...Nikita Khrushchev, of course, was not dead. Nor had Tass said he was. What, then, had happened...
...hours Monday afternoon, Nikita Khrushchev seemed dead. The Pacific Coast Stock Exchange reacted to the news with a flurry of activity and closed registering a loss. The White House announced tersely that the President was following the situation. Newspapers and television networks pressed their Moscow correspondents frantically for details...