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...major threat to peace. Again and again the President refused to be led down the semantic path to a discussion of such generalities as disarmament and trade. Again and again he brought the conversation back to the Russian threat to Berlin, until, on the third day, he got Khrushchev to agree to a removal of all vestiges of ultimatum or threat on Berlin negotiations...
Back at Camp David, the last round of talks got under way as soon as he got home. Again the President laid down to Khrushchev his basic requirement of good faith: Khrushchev must make it plain that Western rights to remain in West Berlin will not be impaired, and he must remove all threats. Khrushchev at last conceded. The details: 1) Eisenhower and Khrushchev would agree in a formal communique to reopen negotiations on the future of Berlin and Germany; 2) Eisenhower would say publicly this week that Khrushchev had withdrawn all cut-off dates and time limits on Western...
Thus the Camp David conference ended on a friendly note. Eisenhower and Khrushchev delayed their departure for an hour and a half so that they could have lunch, rode the 60 miles back to Washington in a helicopter together while their aides got out the communique the world waited...
...advanced farming practices, corn and beef production near Coon Rapids. His host: crag-faced, cranky Millionaire Roswell Garst, who has been to Russia twice to sell corn seed to the U.S.S.R. There amid the alien corn the Premier of the U.S.S.R., Garst, and the tenuous U.S.-Soviet relations nearly got trampled for good under a 300-man brigade of shouting, shoving newsmen (see PRESS...
...reticent during most of her strenuous tour across the U.S. with her husband, Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, returned to Washington, agreed at last to hold a VIP-sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid down some...