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...Afghanistan and the Carter Administration's tough response, "we were told that we would get no assistance and that our reporters and photographers from the U.S. would not get visas." Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has covered the Soviet Union for TIME and was the translator-editor of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, was in the U.S.S.R. when tensions began to mount. Says Talbott, who wrote this week's opening story and the appraisal of U.S.-Soviet relations: "It was like being out of doors without enough warm clothes on and watching the mercury drop another ten degrees...
Brezhnev and his comrades, moreover, have accomplished the buildup without resorting to mass terror or wholesale purges. They have presided over 16 years of political stability?"the first such period since the revolution," says British Historian Leonard Schapiro. Nikita Khrushchev, while a much more sympathetic figure in many ways, ordered reforms one day, crackdowns the next, and engaged, as his comrades-turned-usurpers charged, in "harebrained schemes." His was a manic-depressive leadership. Before him were 25 years of Stalin's government by massacre. The toll: at least 20 million dead in camps, prisons and famines. Before that, the civil...
...extended military metaphor is Solzhenitsyn's own. Scarcely any other image is large enough to encompass the feat of a writer who consistently outwitted and outmaneuvered Nikita Khrushchev, the KGB and the Soviet literary establishment in the pursuit of his mission: to bear witness to the Gulag before his countrymen and the world...
...country does indeed face an immediate external threat or an internal threat of subversion, Yugoslavs have no illusions about its source. True, Belgrade's relations with Moscow have much improved since 1948. Seven years later Soviet Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev partly made up for the animosities of the Stalin era by flying to the Yugoslav capital. There, after an apparently amicable meeting with Tito, he publicly acknowledged that "different forms of socialist development are solely the concern of individual [Communist] countries." Tito's relationship with Leonid Brezhnev was edgy but cordial...
...first hours of the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy was angry. "It fired him," said Sorensen. J.F.K. launched a Government-wide review of his people and U.S. capabilities. It helped spur him on the race to the moon, and he sought a meeting in the summer of 1961 with Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy would not be humiliated or despondent. He vowed to win. Without the same superiority of power and with the crisis so distant, Carter has it tougher. The country's need, however, is greater...