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...Butterfield is survived by her father, Cyrus Eaton, 95 years old, a Cleveland businessman whose liberal political views led him into friendships with Fidel Castro and Nikita Kruschev, among others...
...Russian ambassador, Nikita Tolubeyev, is a member of the Soviet Central Committee and dean of the diplomatic corps, but he is certainly no high commissioner. He is generally regarded by Cuban and foreign contacts alike as a mostly ornamental, rather ineffectual apparatchik and errand boy. In fact, Tolubeyev has complained to his home office that he has difficulty getting access to Fidel. One reason may be that after more than seven years in Havana, Tolubeyev has yet to learn more than a smattering of Spanish. When Fidel wants to coordinate his signals with the Kremlin, he does so by dispatching...
...Kengir, near Ekibastuz, 8,000 men and women prisoners liberated the camp for 40 days. Though ultimately crushed by Soviet tanks, this and other uprisings aroused hopes among prisoners that resistance to the regime would spread out side the camps. Instead, change was ordered from above. In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev set out to disband most of the slave labor camps and release millions of prisoners. Solzhenitsyn hardly mentions this fateful event, stressing instead the legal, institutional and spiritual heritage of Stalinism in the present...
...Marchais well knew, there has been more soul-searching within the party than at any time since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev delivered his watershed anti-Stalin speech and when Soviet troops invaded Hungary. The cause this time was the debacle in March. After all, before the election, opinion polls showed that the leftist parties had their strongest opportunity since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 to push a left-wing coalition regime into power. What shook the Communists was not just the unexpected victory by the center-right coalition led by President Valéry Giscard...
Rainmaker: law-firm partner who brings in business, sometimes because he has held high Government office. Among the most famous was Richard Nixon, who managed to attract Pepsi-Cola to the New York firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose partly because as Vice President in 1959 he steered Nikita Khrushchev to the Pepsi kiosk in Moscow as photographers clicked away. Rainmakers can come up dry: ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark did so much free pro bono work that he lost money for his former New York firm...