Nikita Khrushchev rides through Paris, 1960
Published: January 4, 2012
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Paris, May, 1960: Under the watchful eye of his motorcycle escort, Nikita Khrushchev waves his hat as he rides through the streets of Paris. At far right in the back seat, sporting a rare smile, is Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The Soviet leader had just arrived for meetings with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the summit collapsed before it even got started when Khrushchev demanded an apology from Eisenhower for the incident in which U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down in the Soviet Union.
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