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...Netherlands to accept Molotov as Soviet ambassador, some Soviet experts said that Khrushchev was treating his old foe gently just to point up the contrast between Khrushchevian "humanitarianism" and the bad old Stalin days, when politicians usually lost their lives along with their jobs. Others speculated that it made Nikita nervous to have Molotov in a post so near Red China; in the ideological dispute now raging between Russia and China, long-time "hardliner" Molotov would presumably share Peking's view that Khrushchev is dangerously soft on capitalism...
Showpiece. To demonstrate to the world through this uncomplicated flyer the "insane aggressiveness'' of the U.S., Nikita Khrushchev had set up a show trial that evoked memories of Stalin's purge productions of the 1930s. All morning long in the cold Moscow rain, the black ZIM limousines rolled up to the court to disgorge Soviet Russia's Reddest-blooded aristocrats, including Khrushchev's daughter Elena. Out of the unaccustomed luxury of one of the ZIMs stepped Powers' wife, Barbara, 25. poised and cool in black, flanked by her mother and two lawyers. From another...
...next three years, Oliver Powers explained afterward, his son "will be working in a factory and confined to prison. After that he will serve seven years in a work camp studying the Communist system." But, deep in his heart, Oliver Powers clearly still hoped that an appeal to Nikita Khrushchev, off vacationing in the Crimea, might get Francis off much earlier...
...suggested that the departure of a few hundred technicians heralded a break between Russia and China comparable to that between Stalin's Russia and Tito's Yugoslavia in 1948. But last week, months after Nikita Khrushchev's first open split with Red China's leaders over basic Communist dogma, the battle was getting hotter-and the relationship colder-than ever. Moscow's Izvestia, scarcely veiling its Red Chinese target, railed against "leftists" and "phrase-mongers" who "assemble and sometimes distort quotations to repeat over and over again that imperialist wars are inevitable," adding that only...
...McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like that," then quickly ground out the lyrics and set them to the music of There's a StarSpangled Banner Waving Somewhere. So far, Nikita Khrushchev has not even bothered to acknowledge the copy of the song Red River sent...