A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

the collapse of the Soviet Union — and into the Moscow of Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Havana of Fidel Castro, the Peking of Mao Zedong and the Washington of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and ...

Frankel was The New York Times' executive editor from 1986 to 1994. He remained with the newspaper for nearly half a century, ...

He mentioned how even though his reporting trip introduced him to the markets and the movie houses, his early days reporting in the Soviet Union acquainted him with leader Nikita Khrushchev more ...