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...Washington, President John Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed East-West tensions for two hours. They settled nothing, but top-level talks between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would continue, and the Berlin crisis seemed to be easing slightly...
Meanwhile, the East-West barrier in Berlin itself exploded with new violence. Now, for the first time, German police on both sides were exchanging gunshots as well as curses and tear gas. Each day brought new incidents. One evening, two young East Berliners on an apartment-house rooftop tried to escape by jumping into the net of West Berlin firemen on the street below. But East Berlin cops dashed up to head them off, began shooting. West Berlin police fired back, wounding a Communist cop. Then, from the darkness above, a body came hurtling down; one of the escapers...
Where We Stand: War or Peace? (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A special assessment of East-West friction around the world by news correspondents headed by Eric Sevareid...
Another Faculty member present at the Conference has written an article for the October 7 issue of. The Nation, in which he declares that "a measure of agreement was reached at the Conference which gives new hope for an East-West accord...
...China Issue. In the East-West power struggle the trickiest resolution by far would be an old familiar item, admission of Red China to the U.N.-either as an additional member or in place of Formosa's Chinese Nationalists who have held a Security Council seat since 1945. For a decade, U.S. policy has been to keep the question off the agenda, prevent even a debate. But the changed U.N. power balance has led to changed U.S. tactics, and the first test will occur in this week's Security Council meeting...