Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev promised to back away from his Cuba missiles adventure than the Kennedy Administration started warning journalists not to get too encouraged, not to use words like "capitulation," not to assume that the "hard line" was applicable to all fronts of the cold...
...Nikita Khrushchev is a resourceful, imaginative and tough opponent who obviously has a great many tricks left in the back of his shrewd peasant mind. But, except for those who seem constitutionally unable to believe that the Russians can ever make mistakes, there is an almost worldwide consensus that in Cuba Khrushchev had overextended himself, and that he has been forced back in a test of will with...
...fondly to the view of Khrushchev as a moderate, one theory is that he was pushed into taking the Caribbean gamble, either by the military or by the so-called "hard line" or "Stalinist" group, which some experts suspect of strong and continuing influence. This, presumably, is just what Nikita would like the world to think. Some Western observers even go so far as to argue that if Khrushchev was forced into the Cuban move by "extremists," he is now in a better position than before, having proved the extremists wrong and presumably put them in their place...
...plan had worked-and it came fearfully close-Nikita Khrushchev would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the cold war. Once again a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
...meeting with Russia's Ambassador Ivan A. Benediktov was a further eye opener for Nehru, who had clearly been counting on Nikita Khrushchev to help restrain Red China. The ambassador flatly advised Nehru 1) not to appeal to the West for arms, because this would involve India in the cold war, and 2) not to take the border question to the U.N., since, in the last resort, the Soviet Union would be forced to side with Red China. Benediktov advised negotiation with Red China-Peking's latest offer, after advancing up to 40 miles into India, is that...