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...host of Soviet and U.S. diplomats?headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko???joined Kennedy and Khrushchev at the table. After a cocktail (Khrushchev downed a bourgeois martini, Kennedy a Dubonnet), the two leaders exchanged champagne toasts, regaled each other with political anecdotes and lighthearted comparisons of the Communist and capitalist ways of life. After the luncheon, in a now familiar Kennedy routine, the President took his guest by the arm, suggested a short walk in the garden, alone but for their interpreters. As they strolled around the garden's tree-shaded pond, Kennedy stuffed...
...effect: the Greek Government is to blame for all the border troubles. Foreign military missions (meaning the U.S. and British) must be withdrawn. Foreign economic aid (meaning U.S.) must be subject to a commission that included Russia. Otherwise the situation would end in the servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko???who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time?poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes...
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