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...talks, said U.S. spokesmen, would cover a wide range of topics-NATO, the Common Market, Russia, the Chinese invasion of India, and especially the Congo. This ploy grated on the British. Cried an indignant British newsman: "They couldn't care less about Skybolt! All they want to talk about is the Congo!" But what they did, in fact, was talk about Skybolt...
After that, things seemed to go a bit better. Indeed, some of Stevenson's U.N. performances have won even Kennedy's admiration. On one occasion, when Adlai called the White House to urge a tough speech warning Russia to stay out of the Congo, Kennedy remarked: "In this job, he's got the nerve of a burglar...
...diplomatic business that takes patience, Stevenson has drawn on U.N. experience that goes back to the founding conference in San Francisco, steering through U.S. policy on the Congo operation, U.N. financing, and the election of U Thant-and doing it mostly in quiet, off-camera discussions. In U.N. speeches, Stevenson's eloquence has been an effective weapon. A year ago, he gave perhaps the most cogent speech to date, explaining why the U.S. opposes the seating of a Red China regime that behaves "in a fashion recalling the early authoritarian emperors of China.'' During the Angola...
...question period which followed speech, Fomin was forced to defend Soviet intentions. He said that Russia would not pay for the UN Congo operation "which helped murder Patrice Lumumba," and that East Germans were killed when escaping into West Berlin because they did not leave "through the proper channels of visas and passports...
...year in office he has managed to keep both sides happy most of the time. He brought more Russians into the Secretariat, began conferring regularly with his Soviet Under Secretary, whom his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had deliberately ignored. But when Russia failed to ante up for the Congo operation, Thant deplored the fact, to the satisfaction...