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Meanwhile, the Soviets stepped up their harassment of Allied traffic to West Berlin. A U.S. troop convoy was held up on the Autobahn; three times in two days Soviet MIG fighters buzzed unarmed Allied planes in the 20-mile Frankfurt-Berlin air corridor. Said one Western official: "It's part of what we call their 'weekly reminder' that they're around. They don't like too much time to go by without letting us know they still have a grip on Berlin...
...experts, but he picks things up more quickly than perhaps I would." Ted dy still refused to fire back. In his closing speech, Kennedy quietly noted that it was even then close to 3 a.m. in Berlin, that the cold war convoys would soon be starting down the Autobahn. Then his voice broke with the choked-back emotion of the evening. Said he: "The great problems of this election are the questions of peace and whether Massachusetts will move forward or not. We should not have any talk about personalities or families. I feel that we should be talking about...
...that they climb inside. After a 43-minute argument, the Russians agreed and were escorted to the memorial by MPs. After another three-hour sitdown in which they objected to the escort, the Russians retaliated by dispatching a "quasi-escort" to shepherd a U.S. convoy on the Helm-stedt Autobahn...
...Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko two weeks ago had produced no progress at all. Gromyko flatly refused even to discuss the future of East Berlin, would only talk about changing West Berlin's status. He was not at all interested in internationalizing the Autobahn through East Germany from Berlin to the West ("Would the British like to see the highway from London to Dover internationalized?" asked an East German newspaper sardonically). He also repeated his familiar demand that any settlement must permit Russian troops to join the U.S., British and French garrisons in West Berlin...
From the beginning of his Administration, Kennedy had been concerned about establishing "credibility" with Khrushchev. But, in retrospect, it was not until after the Autobahn voyage that Khrushchev began to believe that the new U.S. President might really back up his brave words with daring deeds. Given that inch, Kennedy began to make mileage...