Word: nikolais
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hated secret-police chief; Beria was executed six months later. Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, but that powerful post was not enough. Sixteen months later, he ousted Malenkov, the Premier and Stalin's successor, and replaced him with his own puppet, Nikolai Bulganin. Finally, in March 1958, he assumed the premiership himself, acquiring undisputed control...
...North Viet Nam. The message announced a brief suspension of bombing, but warned that after the pause "it would be necessary to demonstrate more clearly than ever that the U.S. is determined not to accept aggression without reply." Ambassador Foy Kohler carried the message to Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Firyubin with a request that the Soviets relay it to the North Vietnamese ambassador. Firyubin's reply: "I am not a postman." MCNAMARA AND BOMBING. Secretary of Defense McNamara quickly became disillusioned with the bombing strategy he had recommended to President Johnson and spent his last 16 months in office...
...secure the kind of peaceful settlement under which the U.S., using Israel as a tool, could dictate its will to the Arab states." Izvestia followed by accusing the U.S. of seeking a Middle East solution "at the expense of the Arab countries." Coming only a week after Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny's flying visit to Cairo to sign a 15-year treaty of friendship, the message was clear: Moscow, determined to remain a force in the Arab world, has clearly been nettled by Washington's moves to gain a foothold by arranging a peace settlement...
Thus, when Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny flew into Cairo last week aboard a gleaming 11-62, his chief object was to find out what it all meant and to safeguard the Soviet stake in the Middle East. This he managed at visit's end by signing a 15-year friendship treaty with Sadat that provides for continued Soviet military, economic and cultural aid and, significantly, contains a promise by Egypt to pursue a socialist course regardless of who is in power. The treaty then ensures that Russia's influence can be perpetuated in spite of any U.S. diplomatic...
...Russians seem to believe so. They talk of living in a state of siege. Wives of diplomats say that they hesitate to venture out alone, even to neighborhood supermarkets, for fear of being followed or bothered by insults and obscenities. Last week the nine-year-old daughter of Nikolai Loginov, a first secretary to the Soviet U.N. Mission, was subjected to obscenities shouted by a group on the roof of the Park East Synagogue, directly across from the mission on East 67th Street. Says Loginov: "Can you imagine? To a little girl...