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Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy Kohler, recently named Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that increased bombing carried the risk of killing Soviet technicians now being sent to North Viet Nam in ever greater numbers. To blockade Haiphong harbor-another step favored by the military-might, in his view, result in a military riposte from Russia...
Keep Them Talking. As ambassador to Moscow, succeeding Foy Kohler, Johnson picked Llewellyn E. Thompson, 62, one of the best working Sovietologists in Government. "Tommy" Thompson has spent nine years in the Soviet Union, five of them as ambassador-longer than any other American envoy -speaks fluent Russian, and has been a Kremlin watcher since 1933, when President Roosevelt first recognized the Bolshevist regime...
...Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs, the fourth job in the Foggy Bottom hierarchy, vacant since U. Alexis Johnson was named U.S. Ambassador to Japan in July, the President picked Foy Kohler, 58, a career foreign service officer who for the past four years has served ably as Ambassador to Moscow...
...from outside the government. Professor Eugene Rostow, who will leave Yale Law School to become Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, was the only outsider named to fill one of the three vacant positions. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach will succeed George Ball as Under-Secretary of State and Foy Kohler, the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, will be the new Deputy Under-Secretary for Political Affairs...
Coming Home. Adding to the intrigue, Foy Kohler, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, announced that he would return home this week to confer with Secretary of State Rusk on matters that are sure to include the Moscow murmurings. The same subject was coming in for attention among Iron Curtain diplomats. "It would, of course, be wrong to attribute it to the American bombings," a Communist diplomat told TIME last week, "but the fact is that the passing of time is making North Viet Nam more ready to enter into peace talks...