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...force and fear, as they did in beating down the East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb...
...announced the Soviet nuclear test, President Kennedy flew off to his. summer home at Hyannisport. There, over the Labor Day weekend, he relaxed with his family, loaded 18 of the clan's small fry onto a golf cart and drove off to the candy store. Obviously, if Nikita Khrushchev had tried to panic John Kennedy, he had missed the mark...
Moscow's bang sent shudders down millions of spines. For months Nikita Khrushchev had vowed not to resume unilateral nuclear testing, paying lip service to scientists and humanitarians who feared pollution of the earth's atmosphere, assuring the nervous neutrals that only the warmongering West wanted to resume testing, feigning loyalty to the long, tedious test-ban negotiations in Geneva, where the painful quest for the first step toward effective world arms control droned...
Crisis Change. Then, last week, there was a different tone, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin blockbuster. East Germany's angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
Highest-ranking Soviet official ever to visit Japan, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was all smiles under his toothbrush mustache. When he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week, he exuded the folksy, traveling-salesman style that he and his proverb-prattling boss Nikita Khrushchev have made famous. "You have a saying that goes, 'A good neighbor is better than a distant relative,' " he told his hosts. "We live right next door to each other, and our relations should be those of good neighbors." Some 3,000 Japanese leftists waved red flags in approval, while...