Word: nikitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone home alone (she was still recovering from the difficult birth of John Jr.), a reporter peered through the potted palms behind the stage and saw Actresses Kim Novak and Angie Dickinson joining the President's small coterie. At a Palm Beach, Fla., mansion following Kennedy's summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the President dined with an old school chum, an acquaintance and two attractive young ladies. The acquaintance left after dinner and the chum and the ladies pointedly stayed...
When John Kennedy came back from his Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 he was full of stories about the Soviets' possible intrigue, from smuggling a small atom bomb into the attic of their Washington embassy to monitoring his calls from the White House. How should the U.S. counter it? Kennedy was asked. Go into a protective cocoon? No, he replied, if we did that we would soon be like them. There probably was no answer, he insisted, until the Soviets changed...
...about Gorbachev's program of economic and political reforms -- and with good reason. They realize that copying the Soviet policies would effectively repudiate their own. The men who control the six Warsaw Pact countries remember the last time such wrenching change took place in the Kremlin. In 1956, after Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin, unrest swept Eastern Europe. Workers rioted in Poland, and a Hungarian rebellion had to be put down by Soviet troops. Notes one Polish journalist: "Everyone just holds his breath and waits for what will happen next...
...precisely this group that ultimately defeated past attempts at reform, most recently those of Nikita Khrushchev and former Premier Alexei Kosygin. Today many top bureaucratic posts are still held by people who were appointed in the Brezhnev era. Often they simply do not want change and are in a position to block Gorbachev's reforms. In a speech last July in Vladivostok, the Soviet leader said acidly, "Those who attempt to suppress the fresh voice, the just voice, according to old standards and attitudes, need...
...home, he has actually achieved few of his goals. To date, his policies have been more motion than movement. Despite the Soviet Union's rhetorical support for revolution and radical reforms, the country is very traditional, accepting change only gradually and slowly. Attempts by other Soviet leaders, notably Nikita Khrushchev, to reform the economy and give creative talents more freedom were defeated by entrenched bureaucracies and a privileged class that basically likes things the way they are. Gorbachev has made an impressive start, but it will take all his energy and willpower, and time, to press the Soviet monolith toward...