Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the reach of the Soviet army, only two nations have in effect volunteered themselves into the Moscow orbit, Viet Nam and Cuba. The presence of a Cuban ally so close to American shores tempted Nikita Khrushchev to install missiles there in 1962. The dramatic confrontation of the Cuban missile crisis ended with Khrushchev's backing down, hastening his own downfall and spurring the humiliated Soviet leadership into a costly arms buildup. As for Castro, his first attempts to spread his revolution through Latin America were rebuffed, but now he is trying again in Central America...
...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...
Around 4 o'clock that afternoon, the Supreme Soviet Deputies trailed back to the Great Hall. This time, stubby Nikita Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum, his bald head gleaming...
John Kennedy agreed to remove from Europe forerunners of the Pershing II, while Nikita Khrushchev removed from Cuba the forerunners of the SS-20. That exchange was largely cosmetic. The U.S. had been planning to pull its missiles out of Europe anyway, for its own political and military reasons, while Khrushchev had tried to introduce his missiles in Cuba and, naturally, had intended to leave them there...
...June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, began a three-day orbital voyage, becoming the first woman to break the shackles of the earth. Tereshkova returned to a hero's welcome in Moscow, including kisses from a beaming Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who held her up to the world as the symbol of the new Soviet woman...