Sometimes luck and personal courage matter as much as skillful diplomacy in preventing catastrophes.

U.S. success in rallying support in the Americas for a naval quarantine of Cuba and a strong speech by the U.S. ambassador to ...

On Oct. 12, 1960, volatile leader of USSR visited New York and riled up the Americans.

The Soviet leader reacted sharply to an accusation by Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong about Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. Whether he actually hit the table with his shoe remains debatable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Former United States President John F. Kennedy (R) meets with Nikita Khrushchev, former chairman of the council of ...

A historian wrote that he had adopted the view that Khrushchev’s shoe was not only brandished but also banged.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 1959 (UPI) - Following is the text of President Eisenhower's welcoming remarks to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev:"Mr. Chairman, I welcome you, your family and party to the ...

Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, went back to Moscow recently to complete work on her forthcoming book, a biography of the Soviet leader Nikita ...

As a Time magazine bureau chief, he was pivotal in the publication of revelatory taped interviews with the ousted premier that had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union. By Sam Roberts On Sunday, Xi ...