Word: nikita
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...frustration by the fact that he no longer enjoys in Washington the close ties and strong influence he had in the days of John Foster Dulles. Moreover, Adenauer has never concealed his disdain for the "defensivist" theory on Russia; its advocates hold that negotiations with Moscow are necessary because Nikita Khrushchev is essentially on the defensive, desperately wants to stabilize his position in Eastern Europe, and, given "reasonable" terms by the West, will bargain seriously for an agreement to abate the cold war. Adenauer calls the Berlin probes "boring," but he knows well that there is such a thing...
...Little Revenge. In fact, many in the West share Adenauer's doubts, feel that the West has little to gain from any negotiations except reaffirmation of rights that the West already possesses, and perhaps temporary relaxation of cold war tensions, which Nikita Khrushchev can turn on and off at will in any case. With Adenauer-and De Gaulle-they are convinced that Moscow, on the other hand, could gain a great deal from a settlement that might demoralize West Germany and get the Russians out of a tight spot in Berlin. The argument: Russia today is in a weaker...
...path of violence, terrorism, dynamiting and armed action. Those guerrillas have failed because guerrillas without peasants are like bread mush without bread. The peasants of Venezuela defend this regime because they helped organize it with their votes. We cannot become simple pawns in a world conspiracy moved about by Nikita Khrushchev through the hands of Fidel Castro. It is a lost, thwarted, crushed...
...Nikita Khrushchev, no cube he, guffawed at a showing of Pablo Picasso's cubist paintings last year, but the Spanish master's politics are clearly considered more realistic. For his long devotion to Communist causes (a temporary defection over Hungary was forgiven), the Soviet Union awarded an $11,100 Lenin Peace Prize to Picasso, 80, at the very moment that nine Manhattan galleries were honoring him with "An American Tribute...
...moral was highly pertinent: kindly Nikita Khrushchev, again wrapping himself in Lenin's magic mantle, was justifying the relatively lenient treatment meted out to his own defeated rivals-former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov-who faced only obscurity, not firing squads...