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...moment; the eye of history could scarcely encompass the spectacle of so many potentates, Presidents and dictators. There sat Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, his pink skull fringed with white, his face now frozen as a death mask, now galvanized into full-muscled motion. Behind him, rust-haired Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria...
...tried to sell the Administration on just such a proposal. But having now decided to go all out for the U.N., Ike rearranged his original plans, announced that he would extend his projected stay in New York so that he could meet personally with African, Latin American leaders and Tito, and after that with the new arrivals, Egypt's Nasser, India's Nehru and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan...
Preceding Ike to the U.N. headquarters was Nikita Khrushchev himself. He bounced merrily into the lobby of the Assembly building and found Yugoslavia's Tito waiting, as if by prearrangement. There the two old enemies made their first formal greetings since September 1956, but it was obvious that both were ill at ease. "How do you spend your time here?" Tito began tentatively. Answered K.: "I have a little balcony. I go out and walk back and forth and take...
...United States stands to gain from the strengthening of the neutralist bloc. The leaders of the diverse group are men who have been traditionally wary of Soviet intentions: Nehru, Nasser, and even Tito. Though not the strong anti-Communists that the State Department would like to see in positions of world leadership, these men are far from likely to play into Soviet hands...
...anti-Communists as boss of Albania's secret police; at a 1950 meeting of the Albanian Cabinet, he reportedly shot an argumentative colleague dead over the conference table. His chief political stock in trade is his implacable hatred of Yugoslavia. Since Moscow's latest falling-out with Tito, this has apparently led Khrushchev to favor Shehu over Albania's First Party Secretary Enver Hoxha...