Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This new U.S. zeal for an ancient art stems mostly from the impression made on President Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev's flat declaration that Communism will seek to expand through nasty little undeclared "wars of national liberation." Explains Defense Secretary Robert McNamara: "These wars are often not wars at all. In these conflicts, the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action. Their military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush and the raid. Their political tactics are terror, extortion and assassination. We must help the people of threatened nations...
...last-minute breakdown in the Kremlin's usually well oiled machinery naturally touched off a wave of speculation. Could Nikita Khrushchev be having second thoughts over unleashing a wave of neo-Stalinism? Was the delay caused by the reported heart attack of the party's second secretary, Hard-Liner Frol Kozlov (TIME, May 10), whose tough hand might be needed on the spot to draft the orders for a cultural crackdown? Was it another ploy against Red China...
...four big Moscow shindigs in recent weeks, greying, square-jawed Frol Kozlov, 54, has been conspicuously absent. Could Kozlov, No. 2 man in the party and Nikita Khrushchev's heir-designate, be in trouble? Some Kremlinologists thought so. Their speculation finally prompted a 30-word "Announcement" on Page 2 of Pravda last week. "In connection with inquiries received," said Pravda, the party's Central Committee "announces that Comrade F. R. Kozlov could not take part in the May 1 festivities because of illness." The word in Moscow was that Kozlov, who missed the 1961 May Day parade because...
...after a leisurely stroll through the wooded grounds of Khrushchev's dacha near Moscow that Nikita took Fidel on a shopping tour at the new Moskva department store. Fidel paused at the leather goods display, asked about a belt, but quickly confessed: "I forgot to bring my money." Cracked Khrushchev, who doles out $1,000,000 a day to keep Cuba's chaotic economy from collapsing entirely: "I can guarantee his credit...
...estimate, he has logged 1,500,000 miles in not quite 40 years, celebrating things that few of his colleagues would bother to write about. "This is the only city in America where a dried grape ranks on a par with President Kennedy, the atom bomb, Nikita and the Cuban Reds," he wrote from Fresno a fortnight...