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Some 8,600 delegates and observers met in Buffalo last week for the 44th annual meeting of the American (Northern) Baptist Convention. Like most U.S. Protestant denominations, the American Baptists (membership: 1,578,000) ranked the question of church reunion high on their agenda; they voted to meet next year in Chicago at the same time as the Disciples of Christ (membership: 1,716,000). Business meetings of the two conventions will be separate, but some spiritual and social activities will be carried out jointly. "I do not foresee any immediate merger," said the Baptists' secretary, Dr. Reuben...
...insisted that the West is stalling. Last week the West decided to show the world clearly who was doing the stalling. U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup handed Gromyko a note inviting Russia to a Foreign Ministers Conference to open in Washington on July 23, and to talk about the five agenda items already agreed on: German demilitarization; Austrian peace treaty; German unity; Italian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian peace treaties; status of Trieste...
...proposed agenda: NATO and U.S. bases in Europe, which Gromyko wants included. The West feels that inclusion of NATO would imply 1) that it is open to discussion as a threat to peace, 2) that the West will bargain on this issue...
This week, Moscow accepted the U.S. bid on the unacceptable condition that the agenda include NATO and U.S. bases...
After ten weeks, 50 sessions, an estimated 3,000,000 words, the Foreign Ministers' deputies, meeting in Paris to write an agenda for a Big Four conference, had just about talked themselves out. Even Andrei Gromyko knew there was nothing more to say: one day last week, he spoke for exactly one minute. But still neither side dared make the first move to the door. The talk trickled...