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...virtually all questions with the grey answer that the matter was "under study." Clearly, Kennedy was treading water while he found his own personal bearings. One top-rung State Department adviser 'backgrounded' reporters on the news that the U.S. had asked the Soviet Union to leave crucial East-West issues alone while the new Administration re-examined policy, or expect the toughest possible response to crisis. (To such nonsense, Moscow backgrounded a predictable answer: the U.S. must avoid being provocative.) Yet the beginning of one new important policy was taking shape. Well aware that the nation...
Double Time. On the biggest question of all, East-West relations, Moscow Radio kept recalling that in his campaign Kennedy promised to "recapture the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt," and Nikita Khrushchev hinted that with Kennedy in office U.S.-Soviet ties should revert to the cor diality of F.D.R.'s times. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov has been telling everybody in Washington who may have Kennedy's ear that Moscow is ready to forget all about the U-2 unpleasantness if "progress" can now be chalked up-say, in extending the nuclear test suspension and in starting afresh on disarmament talks...
Close-Up (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Interviews with the Premiers of Nigeria and Togoland, plus Kenya's Tom Mboya, are part of "The Red and the Black," a study of the East-West battle for influence in Africa...
...Congolese student leader yesterday called for an end to the East-West rivalry in his country as the best means of ending factionalism and restoring political stability...
Most African leaders, said Harriman, wish to keep out of East-West conflicts. But he gave one exception to this rule: President Nkrumah of Ghana, who supports the "pro-Communist" ideas of Lumumba...