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...meeting was surrounded by the usual secrecy; non-Communist observers are not even certain whether it was held at Sochi or 40 miles away at Pitsunda. Presumably, the conferees touched on a wide range of foreign policy problems -Berlin, the Soviet setback in the Sudan, China. What most interested Kremlinologists was the final conference communique containing a short but sharp denunciation of "leftwing and right-wing opportunism." Translated, that means China on the left and Yugoslavia and Rumania on the right...
...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 to one of the hot lines to the Kremlin...
Camp Nikita nestles, half hidden, in a grove of rare prehistoric pine trees (each labeled with a metal plate) on the Pitsunda peninsula, 18 miles southeast of Gagra on the Black Sea. On three sides the estate is bordered by a vast state farm; the fourth side is a gentle, U-shaped bay. The beach is broad but rocky; to protect tender feet, boardwalks lead to the water's edge. Four piers, each with a cozy pavilion, jut out into the sea. Dotting the beach are cabanas, each outfitted with swimming trunks and soft towels. In one, presumably...
Given the primitive state of their art. Kremlinologists still could not exclude the simpler explanation offered last week by Nikita himself. Said Khrushchev: "I talked with Mikoyan over the telephone just yesterday from Pitsunda [on the Black Sea coast], where he is taking his vacation. He told me: 'Nikita Sergeevich. come on down. The weatheriswonderful...
...President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from shore to safety. The other attempt to assassinate Stalin, according to the State, was made near Gagry, in 1935, by a group of prominent local Communist officials who were armed with an automatic rifle, a German carbine and a revolver. They...
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