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...seemed to have abandoned even that feeble condition, offering the somewhat lame excuse that otherwise "the pace of events might pass us by." U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman charged that two companies of Viet Minh troops had participated in the earlier attack on Padong, and again asked Russia's Andrei Gromyko to approve a Canadian plan to dispatch helicopters and light planes to the International Control Commission so that it could carry out its assignment of policing the ceasefire. In the absence of instruction and equipment, the I.C.C. had not budged from its headquarters in Vientiane. In reply, Gromyko...
...Geneva, Western negotiators were grim. They had been sitting around waiting for the return of Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko with word from Moscow. But when he arrived next day, he was almost mocking. "My pockets are empty," he said...
Freud? Nyet! Western psychiatrists who had been hoping to find the Russians tapering off in their single-minded adherence to the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of dog, bell and saliva fame, were disappointed. The delegation chief, Moscow's Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky, laid down the line uncompromisingly: "There has been no change in principle in our approach. The theory of Pavlov and its applications are still expanding in Russia...
...host of Soviet and U.S. diplomats?headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko?joined Kennedy and Khrushchev at the table. After a cocktail (Khrushchev downed a bourgeois martini, Kennedy a Dubonnet), the two leaders exchanged champagne toasts, regaled each other with political anecdotes and lighthearted comparisons of the Communist and capitalist ways of life. After the luncheon, in a now familiar Kennedy routine, the President took his guest by the arm, suggested a short walk in the garden, alone but for their interpreters. As they strolled around the garden's tree-shaded pond, Kennedy stuffed...
...struggle. As befitted a low-ranking delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Molotov stood at the station in a crowd of Soviet women and children. "We must get together," said Khrushchev, unabashed, as he reached out to shake Molotov's plump hand. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had been Molotov's underling for years, blinked in the bright sun and smiled a frozen smile. "Nice weather we're having," he said...