Word: novikov
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Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
...that time, Khrushchev was facing opposition at home. The Stalinists who survived the purges of the '30s were the sternest guardians of Communist doctrine, and they often grumbled about Khrushchev. One of them was Tsarapkin's deputy and my superior, Kirill Novikov. Along with Tsarapkin, Novikov had sat behind Stalin during the Potsdam Conference in 1945. He would reveal himself in the way he reminisced: "In Stalin's time we had real order. There were none of these rhetorical flourishes and vacillations." Moscow was rife with gossip about intrigues. A clique in the Presidium (Khrushchev's name for the Politburo...
...early February 1958, Novikov took me to a meeting with Gromyko. It was the first time I had seen him since joining the ministry. Gromyko opened the discussion with a propaganda tirade. He said that Khrushchev considered it necessary to develop a campaign to stop nuclear weapons testing: "He has decided that we must set an example and unilaterally discontinue the testing of nuclear weapons...