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...spell out, however, whether he would risk a new East-West crisis by also transferring to Premier Otto Grotewhohl's Red regime the supervision of traffic between West Berlin and West Germany...
...cheerful observer wearing rose-colored glasses might have seen last week some hopeful signs of progress toward disarmament, especially if he focused on Geneva. Scheduled to begin behind locked doors in Geneva this week was an East-West conference on technical aspects of reducing the threat of surprise attack. At another Geneva conference, U.S., British and Russian delegates were already in their second week of talks on nuclear-test suspension, though progress was stalled by the clash between Soviet insistence on stopping tests right away and "forever" and U.S.-British insistence that a foul-proof inspection system must precede...
...mean little gain for Soviet propaganda, and a larger defeat for human dignity. Yet if Pasternak's letter was a retreat, it was not a complete capitulation. A Russian patriot, he had plainly not enjoyed being trapped in the no man's land of the East-West cold war. No political figure, asking only of politics that it not destroy all that he holds more dear, Boris Pasternak, during the blackest years of Stalin's tyranny, had aloofly "listened to the world through his soul...
GENEVA, Nov. 16--A breakdown of the East-West negotiations on nuclear test suspension clearly became a possibility yesterday in view of rejection by each side of proposals put forward by the other. The United States rejected a Soviet plan on the ground the Russians sought to extract a promise to end tests without giving guarantees on a control system...
...meeting at Geneva is no ordinary conference, and if it fails, its failure will be no ordinary one. Lack of agreement on so vital and important a problem as disarmament will leave little hope for the success of future East-West negotiations...