In early July, when it gets searing hot in the Middle East, the man who had forehandedly helped make the place particularly hot went off on a graciously appointed yachting cruise with his family to ...

The mixture of rocket-rattling boasts by Nikita Khrushchev and of policeman’s caution by his head cop, Ivan Serov, in the Nasser-Khrushchev huddle in the Kremlin a fortnight ago undoubtedly underlined ...