Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin was still taut. Refugees from East Germany continued their desperate attempts to scale the Wall and sprint to freedom. Shots were fired from both sides of the border. At the highest levels of diplomacy, talks toward negotiations had come to a standstill. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was back in Moscow after sessions with President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. At his press conference, the President reported somberly: "The talks which we had with Mr. Gromyko did not give us immediate hope that this matter would be easily settled...On the substance, we are not in sight...
...Washington, President John Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed East-West tensions for two hours. They settled nothing, but top-level talks between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would continue, and the Berlin crisis seemed to be easing slightly...
...Newport, R.I., and his first real presidential rest, Kennedy clearly felt that he was on top of his job. His confidence showed through as he attacked matters of state and as he handled the chores of routine and ritual. In his end-of-week confrontation with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko over Berlin, the President was cool and collected, making it clear that the U.S., while willing to negotiate, would not be bludgeoned to the conference table. Meeting Thailand's Foreign Minister Nai Thanat Khoman, Kennedy expressed his blunt concern that some Southeast Asian nations seemed less than enthusiastic...
Back in Moscow after three weeks in the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this week faces the job of reporting to his boss, Nikita Khrushchev, who in turn faces the task of mounting a big show before the forthcoming 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress. Neither Gromyko nor Khrushchev have any real claim to success in Russia's effort to push the West out of Berlin...
RETURNING to London after two weeks at the U.N. General Assembly, including several talks with Andrei Gromyko, the British Foreign Secretary reported one overriding impression. The Russians now clearly understand, said Lord Home, that the West is fully prepared to fight a nuclear war for the freedom of Berlin. Whether or not the Russians have really only just learned this fact, the U.S. has implicitly accepted it for a long time. For many Americans, this decision may be merely emotional or instinctive. But behind the emotions and the instinct lies a carefully reasoned moral case. That case...