Word: rodion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corridor Incidents. But despite Gromyko's willingness to confer, it was still not certain that Nikita Khrushchev was ready to negotiate on rational terms. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovosky, in an ominous article in Pravda, said that Russia must arm its forces for "a strenuous, difficult and exceptionally fierce war." Along Western air corridors to Berlin, Soviet MIG-17s began making close-up inspections of U.S. passenger liners-the first such incidents in a year. There was a rising chorus of East German and Soviet complaints that the Allies were "misusing" the corridors-a possible foreshadowing of Red efforts...
...Peace Is Inevitable." An icy drizzle fell next morning as Chairman Liu stood beside Khrushchev and Soviet War Minister Rodion Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb to review the traditional parade through Red Square. The military parade lasted eight minutes, just long enough to flaunt a thumping train of Russian rockets, including a slim newcomer called the Silver Needle, which the Soviet press claimed was the kind that downed U.S. Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 last spring...
Stage Thunder. It was in keeping, too, that last week's display began with a tough-toned warning by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, the Defense Minister who accompanied Khrushchev to the summit. Malinovsky had issued a new order to Soviet rocket forces: if any foreign plane flies across the border of Russia or any other Communist country, strike at the base the plane flew from. "We do not trust the imperialists!" he cried in a speech at the Kremlin. "We are convinced that they are only waiting for an opportunity to attack...
...Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence has always had its hard underside; after all, the summit conference was precipitated in the first place by his threats to West Berlin. In Paris last week, Rodion Malinovsky was an overt reminder of the brute force that Russia's Communists command if they chose to turn tough. He was also the visible symbol of one of the forces that press upon Khrushchev...
Iron Man. At 61, Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky is deprecated by many Soviet officers as a political marshal and a Khrushchev stooge. Gross (5 ft. 7 in., nearly 300 lbs.), diabetic and slow-moving, he retains the abrupt manner of a noncom. But over a 40-year career in the Red army, he has combined a talent for political survival with an impressive combat record...