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...route to the U.S. in 1960 as part of the entourage accompanying Nikita Khrushchev, Shevchenko hears the bumptious Premier mutter threats against the life of then U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died mysteriously in a plane crash in the Congo a year later...
...third secretary, was to monitor the disarmament negotiations then taking place in London under the auspices of the U.N. I was convinced that the Soviet Union was more interested in disarmament than the U.S. was. So was the First Secretary of the party, Nikita Khrushchev. The head of our department, Tsarapkin, told me that Khrushchev was very bitter that at the London negotiations, there had been sudden changes in the American position, and the U.S. had withdrawn what our side considered a significant concession...
Zamyatin told me that the Vienna meeting had amounted to no more than the two heads of state taking each other's measure. The Premier, Zamyatin said, had concluded that Kennedy was a mere "boy," who would be vulnerable to pressure. "At present," he continued, "Nikita Sergeyevich is thinking about what we can do in our interest and at the same time subject Kennedy to a test of strength...
...made. The Kremlin's obsession with continuity is confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise when it is an autocratic, dictatorial, almost monarchical system? The only difference is there is no biological heir...
...amuses himself by playing fly on the wall. In the White House, President John F. Kennedy muses, "It took me two years before I figured out that Harry Truman was Harry Truman's real name. I thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable...