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...impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over the mainland, where, shot down, they would look like attackers.) Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, rattling the Moscow end of the Communist axis, threatened in another propaganda letter to Eisenhower that U.S. ships "can serve as targets for the right types of rockets." (The President patiently wrote back a request that Khrushchev talk sense, not waste time on "upsidedown presentation," and help cool down...
Russia's Nikita Khrushchev fired off a tough-talking note to Dwight Eisenhower. He derided the Seventh Fleet ("In the age of nuclear and rocket weapons . . . these once formidable warships are fit for nothing but courtesy visits and gun salutes . . ."-), and warned: "An attack on the People's Republic of China ... is an attack on the Soviet Union." Ominous as this sounded, it did not escape the attention of the world's statesmen-presumably including Mao-that Khrushchev had chosen to make his gesture of solidarity with Red China only after Washington and Peking had both indicated...
...them away with historic callousness: most of them were summarily shot. This precedent is still honored on occasion in satellite nations such as Rumania, which, in the course of its current purge of "revisionists," recently executed eight citizens of Hungarian ancestry accused of "separatist plotting." But in Russia itself, Nikita Khrushchev, with a little more refinement, generally spares the lives of the men he purges, subjects them instead to a Muscovite version of the Chinese water torture...
Seven days after President Eisenhower proposed a one-year suspension of U.S. nuclear-weapons tests, Nikita Khrushchev accepted the U.S. terms: high-level political talks, beginning Oct. 31, on a foolproof world network of listening posts to detect any nuclear explosions...
...impossible to answer for the madmen of the imperialist world," said Nikita Khrushchev in a speech broadcast by Moscow radio last week. "But at the present time it seems to me there is no cloud from which thunder might crash...