Word: nikitas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discipline of a Rhodes scholar at Oxford (B. Litt., 1971). "I put myself through a crash course in the exotic hardware, the numerology offeree levels and the foreign language of arms-control acronyms," he explains. As a student of Russian literature, the translator and editor of two volumes of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs (1970 and 1974) and an observer of statecraft, Talbott knew three essential SALT tongues: Russian, Kremlinese and the diplomatic parlance in which "frank" and "businesslike" indicate disagreement and stonewalling...
What Vins calls a strong "Baptist awakening" was occurring, especially among the young, partly in response to a virulent antichurch campaign then being conducted by Soviet Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Obviously under strong pressure, the All-Union Council ordered Baptists to keep children from attending church and to baptize no one under the age of 30. For many Baptists this signified, as Vins puts it, that the All-Union Council was "so dependent on the state that it could not withstand the pressure of atheism...
...figure that if you start out to be No. 2," mused John Kennedy one night in the Oval Office when he was grappling with Nikita Khrushchev over Berlin, "then that is how you are going to end up." Even then, doubts about U.S. capabilities were beginning to creep into the official considerations. On that evening Kennedy walked over to the globe beside his desk, gave it a twirl, and traced with his finger the perimeter of the free world. How long could the U.S. continue to be the principal guardian of that endless frontier? he asked...
John F. Kennedy and his advisers. They were, he claims, intimidated by Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, who had been making grim references to a nuclear holocaust if the West did not get out of Berlin, where it had had a legal right to be since 1945. Beneath the bluster, however, Khrushchev was behaving cautiously. At first, he resisted East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's request to build the Wall. When the barrier was erected, Western leaders reacted with relief. They had been expecting much worse...
Washington responded by staging the most fervent welcome for a foreign visitor since Nikita Khrushchev came calling in 1959. Showing few signs of his 74 years, Teng rushed through a formidable schedule of official and semiofficial events. He talked for 5½ hours with Carter, dined at the White House, lunched with Senators and U.S. reporters, sampled American culture at the Kennedy Center and barnstormed across the country, getting a firsthand look along the way at American enterprise: a Ford plant near...