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Hard Road. For all the public smiles and warm words, the road to Glassboro had been arduous, and at times ridiculous. From Washington's viewpoint, there were at least four powerful arguments against the meeting?the four sterile cold-war Summits during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, most notably the 1960 Paris meeting that broke up over the U-2 incident as soon as it began, and John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration...
...Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive," says Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that land. We fought to open its gates to our brethren. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people...
...attractive moderate as its candidate, it cannot hope to carry the South unless its nominee is sufficiently conservative to neutralize Wallace's appeal. Former Vice President Richard Nixon has a considerable Southern following, but Ronald Reagan is probably the only Republican capable of consolidating his party's arduous-and still tenuous-risorgimento in Dixie...
...streamline the work of Europe, this summer the EEC will merge with the Common Market's two other institutions, Euratom and the Coal and Steel Community. The long and arduous Kennedy Round of tariff negotiations in Geneva show promise of producing a 20-25% worldwide reduction in tariffs, largely hammered out between the U.S. and the Common Market. In its relations with the outside world, the Common Market already has in force association agreements with Greece, Turkey, Nigeria, the Dutch Antilles, plus 18 former French colonies in Africa. It has trade agreements with Iran, Israel and Lebanon, is also...
Back in Washington after two days of arduous picture taking during the funeral of Konrad Adenauer, Lyndon Johnson's White House photographer, Yiochi Okamoto, 51, was visibly jumpy when reporters asked him about his boss's meeting with Charles de Gaulle. Okie was the only other American present when the President got together with De Gaulle in a private room in the West German Bundestag for the first time after 31 troubled years. Well, persisted the newsmen, how would Okie describe the momentous event? "It was," he replied succinctly, "f/2 at 1/30...