Word: nikita
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Russia hesitated to intercede, for fear of alienating the Communists in Laos and North Viet Nam. Soviet intervention at this stage might turn them increasingly toward Red China, Russia's rival, for support in their revolution. But Nikita Khrushchev was also under pressure from a different quarter. In Washington, President Kennedv made it clear that he ex pected Moscow to put a stop to Pathet Lao pressure and live up to the Geneva agreement. "We will, I think, have a chance to see in the next few days whether we are going to have a destruction of that accord...
...before him in the tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their ideas about Americans in general and Mr. Dulles in particular." On a memorable October day he flew to the Crimea and a first meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. After some 19 toasts and some hard talk on NATO, Pearson and three aides marched straight, heads up, to their car, noted with pride that they left their hosts in worse condition than they were...
News of the cancellation did not come as much of a surprise, since Yevtushenko's writing, which is often critical of the Soviet Union, has recently brought condemnation from Soviet political leaders. At a meeting with artists and writers last month, Premier Nikita Khrushchev singled out the 29-year-old poet and novelist Ilya Ehrenburg for severe censure...
...Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unitá, which soberly described Soviet troubles in domestic and foreign affairs and at one point permitted itself the flat assertion that "Moscow is living through a delicate and interesting political moment." Rome's volatile press erupted with screaming headlines predicting Nikita's imminent downfall. Big papers in New York, London and Paris gave way to similar speculation...
...bourgeois intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence was to give the editors of France's L'Express his autobiography for publication, knowing well that no Soviet writer is permitted to publish abroad without first getting clearance from the censors...