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Hard liners have greeted the two Soviet actions as typical of Soviet crisis-making politics, saying that they resemble the way in which Krushchev fueled the Berlin crisis in the '60s. As Zbigniew Brezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, reportedly said last week, the hard-liners have counseled the Administration to "stay cool and on course...
...hard to miss Albee's a indictment not of any one couple but of Western Society generally. The names George" and "Martha with their definite tone of American, cast aspersions on our first presidential couple. Albee admitted during an interview once that Nick is intended to suggest Nikita Krushchev, and Albee wastes no opportunity to refer to Nick as the proponent of a vast, homogenizing science, as George constantly asks him if he is involved in work with chromosomes and eugenics. In the climatic confrontation between George and Martha. Albee destroys a whole world of little lies and mythologies...
...ultimate game of chicken commenced on October 22, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy grimly etched a line 700 miles off the coast of Cuba. Kennedy promised a war that no one wanted if Nikita Krushchev did not call back his battleships and remove his missiles from the island. The Kremlin remained silent. B-52 squadrons scrambled: the Soviet fleet steamed ahead...
There was a copy of Life magazine a few years ago that contained a spread of Communist world leaders, the people Life felt were trying to destroy Our Way Of Life and replace it with the Soviet Union's. Krushchev was in the spread, as were Tito and Mao. And towards the bottom, in a postage-stamp sized photograph, was another of those horrible totalitarians, Pablo Neruda...
Odajnyk attributed the 1965 arrests to the reversal of Krushchev's "de-Stalinization" movement upon his overthrow in 1964. "The rehabilitation of Stalin's policy adopted by the new leadership in 1965 was generated by the reaction of conservatives who had not reconciled themselves to the debunking of Stalin," Odajnyk said. "In May of that year, a tougher stance on national and cultural policies was announced, and in August the secret arrests of 30 intellectuals in various cities in the Ukraine took place," he added...