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...Rejecting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand that a three-man secretariat replace Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold as head of the U.N., the U.S. promised to use its veto to preserve the status quo. Russia's "troika" proposal, argued Rusk, not only "flies in the face of everything we know about effective administration" but attacks "the equal rights and opportunities now enjoyed by all members of the General Assembly-and the protection afforded them by the U.N.'s peace-keeping machinery...
...Washington, London, Paris and Bonn, Western diplomats worked painstakingly over the wording of separate but cautiously coordinated memorandums that will answer Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a German peace treaty by year's end. Weighing each word with infinite care, Washington labored long on its own answer. President Kennedy rejected the State Department's first draft; in lengthy sessions with his ranking experts-Military Adviser Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Berlin Task Force Chief Dean Acheson-he mulled over several more drafts, penciled in much of the language of the final version himself...
...rostrum in the Kremlin's Great Hall waddled a stumpy figure in the dark green of a Soviet lieutenant general and sporting a chestful of medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed...
...Bases? Khrushchev pretended to be especially upset that the U.S. had responded to Russia's peace-loving overtures by raising its military budget. "This," cried Nikita, "may confront the Soviet Union with the necessity of likewise increasing its armament appropriations . . . and the strength of its armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...time, Moscow was buzzing with rumors that Premier Georgy Malenkov was on the way out. And although one Nikita Khrushchev, then party first secretary, officially denied the rumors, he pointedly urged his guests to talk to Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin. Ignoring the hint, the Hearst crew featured Khrushchev's official denial-SOVIET SHUNS WAR, DENIES MALENKOV AND HE MAY SPLIT-which ran in Hearst papers just the day before Malenkov resigned, to be replaced by Khrushchev's hand-picked choice: Nikolai Bulganin...