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...Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz and Ambassador to China Leonard Woodcock. But McHenry had the advantage of being a black as well as having the support of Young. His main disadvantage was that he was not well known. Then the Soviets came to his assistance when they tried to rush Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova out of the U.S. McHenry was put in charge of the laborious negotiations with the Soviets at Kennedy Airport. Deputy White House Press Secretary Rex Granum said that the President was impressed with Mc-Henry's "toughness and coolness under fire and strong, forceful negotiating techniques...
...Ballerina goes back to Moscow
...Whether Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova of the Bolshoi Ballet really wanted to go home or to defect with her husband, Dancer Alexander Godunov, may never be known in full. When Godunov, one of the most brilliant of Soviet ballet stars, made his rush to freedom, he did not-or could not-take her with him. Upholding U.S. law prohibiting forced repatriation, the State Department insisted on interviewing Vlasova to see if she wanted to join her husband. Belatedly, the State Department moved to keep her in the country by preventing her Aeroflot jetliner from taking off until, in the words...
...passengers aboard grounded for more than 24 hours and surrounded by police at New York's Kennedy Airport; top U.S. officials at the U.N. and in Washington getting into the act; the official Soviet news agency, Tass, accusing the U.S. of "political blackmail"; and Godunov's ballerina wife an unwilling hostage in the center of the turmoil...
With uniformed police, plainclothesmen and Port Authority officials surrounding the plane, Donald McHenry, Deputy U.S. Ambassador at the U.N., and a team of State Department and Immigration and Naturalization officials sought permission to question Vlasova. Soviet U.N. Ambassador Yevgeni Makeyev refused to allow the beleaguered ballerina off the aircraft. But on two occasions, two State Department officials were permitted aboard the plane, where they talked with Vlasova. Dressed in a snappy black jumpsuit, the dancer said she indeed desired to return home. "I love my husband. But he has made his decision to stay here, while I have made mine...