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Mikhail Gorbachev had every opportunity to behave in the worst Soviet tradition, fuming and pounding like Nikita Khrushchev did to Ike and Kennedy. He did not. "This is not going to happen today, or tomorrow or in the future," Gorbachev said. Even when he was asked about Andrei Gromyko's characterization of him as a man with "iron teeth" behind a nice smile, Gorbachev declined the old role. "It hasn't yet been confirmed," he said. "As of now, I'm still using my own teeth." Reagan's friend freedom was surely watching, and Gorbachev felt...
...Before Deng, the failure was more starkly obvious in China. The average peasant or city worker was little better off, if at all, when Mao died in 1976 than he or she had been in the 1950s. But even the Soviet Union has long since had to forget Nikita Khrushchev's hollow boast that it would inevitably "bury" the U.S. by surpassing the American standard of living. Quite the opposite: the U.S.S.R.'s economic growth rate has slipped to about half the pace of the 1960s, and its citizens still have to stand in long lines for such minor amenities...
...Election Committee and helped draw up plans for the reorganization of the central government. Made a Vice Premier in 1952 and a Politburo member in 1955, Deng began appearing in public with Chairman Mao and Premier Chou. When Mao visited Moscow in late 1957, he drew Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev aside and pointed to Deng. "See that little man there?" Mao said. "He's highly intelligent and has a great future ahead...
...February of the preceding year Deng had been in the audience when Khrushchev delivered his celebrated "secret speech" denouncing Stalin's excesses. The parallels between Stalin's personality cult and Mao's increasing use of self-glorification seem to have made an impression on Deng. At the Chinese Communist Party's National Congress seven months later, Deng openly warned, in Mao's presence, that "serious consequences can follow from the deification of the individual." It was an extraordinary act of temerity, even for a rising star...
...Viewing Rafsanjani as pragmatic is dangerous, since that is an example of seeing the political landscape of totalitarian countries through the U.S.'s democratic eyes. Rafsanjani is pragmatic in comparison with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei in the same way that the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev was pragmatic in comparison with Joseph Stalin. Klein should recall that the Cuban missile crisis, during which the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war, occurred under the Soviet leadership of the "pragmatic" Khrushchev. Arun Khanna Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Although I admire President Bush's sincere attempt to fight...