Word: nikita
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...fight to prevent such a treaty-unless it interferes with basic rights in West Berlin. But the signing of such a treaty, this year or next, will contribute to the permanent division of Germany, which is Khrushchev's real aim-and the real danger for Berlin (which, Nikita Khrushchev hoped, became permanently divided with the building of the Red wall...
...kind of drastic policy change or major party infighting that has marked many congresses in the past.* In 44 years and 15 Party Congresses since the October 1917 Revolution, Communism's inner hierarchy has never seemed more stable or more successful. Since the previous congress in 1959, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev had routed the last implacable Stalinists from positions of power. In his major scheduled address about past accomplishments and future progress, he could point to Soviet industry and science riding a high curve of technological advance. Abroad, he could point to steady Communist erosion of the West...
...rehearsing his invective for the big Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev chose U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith as target for Moscow's crudest and weirdest verbal blockbuster of the week. What angered the Russian was Republican Smith's Sept. 21 Senate speech chiding Democrat John F. Kennedy for "turning to emphasis on conventional weapons" when the U.S. needs to increase its nuclear superiority over Russia. Khrushchev's reply went to Britain's former Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell and 58 other Labor M.P.s who had urged Russia to stop nuclear testing...
...Roared Nikita: "Who can remain calm and indifferent to such provocative statements made in the United States Senate by this woman, blinded by savage hatred toward the community of Socialist countries?" Shrilly, Nikita went on, "It is hard to believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise, can make such a malicious man-hating appeal. She should understand that in the fire of nuclear war millions of people would perish, including her own children, if she has any. Even the wildest of animals, a tigress even, worries about her cubs, licks and pities them...
...equivalent of Mein Kampf," they tell us, "is contained in the millions of words uttered in almost every latitude and longitude (sic) by the leader of the world communist movement. From this flow of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and epithets (not to mention adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions) there emerges a Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev who considers himself the most powerful man on earth. ... He makes no secret of his desire to rule the world. ... Conquest is the central theme of all he says, the objective of everything he does." Thus, Mager and Katel. For lack of subtlety in thought and expression they...