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...Paolo, Brazil, began serving a prison term for biting his pet dog to death. The national government of Tannu Tuva dissolved itself sine die. The City Fathers of Kabul, Afghanistan, appropriated 500 coppers to build two cupolas with minarets. And at his dacha in the Ukraine, Nikita S. Krushchev passed a quiet afternoon, cursing his luck...
Helsinki Club. Mindful of all this-and of Nikita Khrushchev's attacks on the Finns in 1959 for including anti-Soviet politicians in their Cabinet-Kekkonen does indeed go to great pains to avoid antagonizing the Russians. His government deplored the U.S. invasion of Cambodia but made no mention of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It torpedoed Nordek, the proposed Scandinavian common market, mainly because the Soviets were suspicious of it. Even domestic politics reflects this concern. In Finland's March elections, the Conservatives finished in second place (out of eight parties). But when a five-party coalition...
During his lifetime, statues and pictures of Joseph Stalin blossomed across the length and breadth of the Soviet Union and its satellites. But after his death in 1953, the old dictator's successors ruthlessly turned against him. In a secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 denounced Stalin as an egomaniac who employed mass terror and torture. Stalin was then efficiently erased from public view, and the exterior vestiges of his rule-statues, pictures, street signs -came tumbling down. Only in his native Georgia did his statues and pictures remain in place...
...Lately, as a correspondent in the network's Tokyo bureau, he had been spending one month out of every three in the war zone. Not reluctantly: Syvertsen had a reputation for spunk. TIME'S Rome bureau chief, James Bell, particularly remembers a time in 1963 when Nikita Khrushchev was meeting with Dean Rusk in Pitsunda on the Black Sea. "The Soviet security people tried to throw us out," Bell recalls. "We were rescued by Nikita himself, who dressed down the guards, said we were his personal guests and could do anything we liked. So George calmly walked over...
Since he first began to publish his poetry twelve years ago, Voznesensky has been sharply rebuked by Nikita Khrushchev and dismissed by conservative critics as a "formalist"-a derogatory term for a Soviet writer who allows himself to become preoccupied with experimentation rather than socialist realism. And he has frequently tussled with officialdom over censorship. His controversial stage revue, Look Out for Your Faces (TIME, March 9), an exuberant plea for individuality and self-expression, was ordered closed in February after only two performances. But his widespread popularity as the voice of a new Soviet generation has clearly survived undiminished...