Word: nikita
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...next war, cried Nikita Khrushchev last week, will be "fought on the American continent, which can be reached by our rockets." Khrushchev was presuming a long-term Soviet lead in 5,000-mile intercontinental ballistic missiles. His presumption ignored one fact: if launched from a NATO base on the European continent, a U.S. 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile has, so far as Russia is concerned, all the bang of an ICBM. Last week, in a major policy decision, the Administration decided to push toward allowing NATO that big bang, even if it means changing the McMahon...
...shifting dynamics of the cold war, the Kremlin, oft-defeated, is turning to a new offensive technique: "missile diplomacy." Every day of every week Moscow rolls out pronouncements about the successes of its experiments with intercontinental ballistic missiles. In the day of the missile, says Russia's Boss Nikita Khrushchev, Europe might become "a veritable cemetery," and the U.S. is "just as vulnerable." His own recurring theme, tossed off at cocktail parties, pounded home by Moscow radio and repeated last week: "Bombers are useless, compared to rockets...
...Sputniks. Standing at the rostrum, the bull-necked peasant who now presides over this vast empire savored his time of triumph to the full. For four long hours Nikita Khrushchev boasted of the past and future achievements of the U.S.S.R. In the next five to seven years, he declared, Soviet industry would "fully satisfy . . . footwear and fabric requirements." In ten or twelve years there would be an end to Russia's acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items...
...this pie was still in the sky, so were two Sputniks. For days past, Karandash, a famed Russian clown, had been convulsing Moscow audiences by exploding a small balloon, then explaining, "That is the American Sputnik." Never one to pass up a surefire gag, Nikita, too, harped on U.S. discomfiture: "The U.S. announced that it was preparing to launch an earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia...
...Song. That evening, to wind up the anniversary program, the aristocracy of the Communist world flocked to the Grand Palace of the Kremlin, where once the Czars and their nobles made merry. Jauntily, Nikita Khrushchev moved among his hard-drinking guests, smiling and shaking hands like a ward boss. Once, captured by an excited female comrade, he let himself be whirled through a few dance steps to the accompaniment of shouts of "Molodets!" (bravo). Later, somewhere in the background, half-drowned out by laughter and the clatter of dinner plates, an orchestra burst into the strains of an old song...