Word: nikita
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DEATH REVEALED. Nina Khrushchev, 84, widow of deposed Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and one of the few Communist high officials' wives to appear frequently in public or to develop an independent identity; in Moscow on Aug. 8. A schoolteacher who married Khrushchev in 1924, she was his second wife and bore him three children (a son, Sergei, and a daughter, Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed...
...infamous Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939; to membership in the Communist Party, from which he was dropped in 1962; in Moscow. Molotov was dismissed from the party five years after losing his post-Stalin leadership positions, allegedly for belonging to a group seeking the overthrow of Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev...
John Kennedy figured he had made a strike by persuading Nikita Khrushchev to meet with him in Vienna. But man-to-man he could not even get Khrushchev to admit that killing 70 million people with nuclear weapons in ten minutes was a bad idea. "I never met anybody like that," J.F.K. marveled. There was something else where the heart was supposed...
...militarized political system that views history as conflict and the world (including much of the real estate within the confines of its own empire) as enemy territory. The Kremlin has always regarded peace as war conducted by other means, and that goes particularly for peace with its arch adversary. Nikita Khrushchev saw no contradiction between his hope for "peaceful coexistence" and his boast "We will bury you." Similarly, Leonid Brezhnev made no bones about how the "ideological struggle" would continue despite détente...
...Gromyko, the inimitable Nikita Khrushchev said, "He will...