Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees all over the world. Tinnin quickly sent a cable informing the TIME-LIFE News Service, urging correspondents working on the cover to be alert for any opportunity to examine the document. One correspondent eventually succeeded...
...army; shaped in stucco are Russian victories from the 15th to the 19th century. It was amid those trappings last week that the Soviet Union, in quest of another, far more difficult victory, assembled some 300 leaders of 75 Communist parties from around the world for the third postwar summit meeting in the history of the Communist movement...
...task that the Kremlin had undertaken in convening the summit was formidable. There was considerable suspicion that the conference, expected to last two or three weeks, would turn out to be a debacle for the Soviets. Never has the Communist movement been in greater disarray. Once the undisputed fountainhead of Communism, Moscow has seen many parties grow distant and independent and others turn violently against Soviet primacy. It is not too much to say that the Russians can now command unquestioning obedience only in those countries where their soldiers can enforce...
...that question is really what the Moscow summit is all about, though perhaps none of those present in St. George's Hall would frame their purpose in such a transparent way. Certainly not Brezhnev, Kosygin and the other Russian hosts. Judging by the initial head-on assault against China, they have cast aside the promises made to many of the delegations and are determined to wrench from the parties the long sought writ of excommunication against Mao Tse-tung. It seems a reckless act, and having embarked on it, the Soviet leaders have little more to lose by also demanding...
Being able to hold the summit meeting at all represents a victory of sorts for the Russians. From 1962 onward, Nikita Khrushchev tried to convene a world conference to deal with the Chinese. After the ouster of Khrushchev in 1964, the summit plan was shelved until three years ago, when the collective Kremlin leadership of Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin began to push for a meeting where the Soviets could try to reassert their old primacy within international Communism. Twice a date was set only to be scrubbed -first by the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets and then...