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Last week the Russians expelled Colonel Edwin M. Kirton, the U.S. air attache in Moscow, on charges of trying to photograph military installations in Odessa and "actively carrying out visual observations" on a train ride southeast of Sverdlovsk...
...still smoldering in Sverdlovsk last spring when Mort Sahl began smoldering in Los Angeles. Building toward the big one, he waved the Examiner choppily, noted that Khrushchev had threatened war. "Then he modified it. He said, 'There will be no war for six to eight months. R.S.V.P.' " Still, K. always had the initiative, and Washington was just sitting around like a neglected girl, with Herter fretting: "Has he called today?" Returning to Pilot Francis Powers' possible fate ("They'll let him go to please the French"), Sahl again skirted off the subject to note that some...
Then Pilot Francis Powers was brought down over Sverdlovsk, and the revelation that for four years U-2s had been flying over Russia with impunity left, in the words of a State Department official, an "indelible impression of Soviet vulnerability." The failure to win over the President, plus Ike's outspoken defense of the U-2 flights, probably hurt Khrushchev seriously in the eyes of his own people, hurt his position in the Communist bloc as well. (During the U-2 uproar, China's Mao Tse-tung noted caustically: "This ought to convince those naive enough...
...Named for Jacob Sverdlov, a leader of 1917's Red Revolution, credited in Soviet history books with having ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family at Ekaterinburg, later renamed Sverdlovsk (where Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 went down...
Down over Sverdlovsk. Khrushchev was plainly deciding to talk tough at the summit. Then came May Day. During the May Day parade in Moscow, Khrushchev and Malinovsky, up in the Red Square reviewing stand, were observed excitedly poring over a military map, and at one point, a messenger was sent dashing off carrying a note scribbled by Khrushchev. The U-2 had been downed over Sverdlovsk...