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...observers expected that Khrushchev would use the Supreme Soviet session as a platform for tirades against U.S. nuclear tests, Moscow's announcement that it will follow the U.S. series with more weapons tests of its own left little grounds for righteous indignation. Indeed, Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko spoke in relatively muted tones; in almost identical words, both allowed that U.S.-Soviet talks on Berlin yielded "glimmers of hope." The published text of Khrushchev's recent three-hour interview with Look Publisher Gardner Cowles showed that the Soviet Premier has finally abandoned his insistence on a summit...
...State Dean Rusk met Moscow's new man in Washington, affable Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, for talks on "procedure" that might lead to actual negotiations this month. "Very friendly," remarked Dobrynin after his first hour's chat. "Relaxed," agreed a State Department spokesman. In Moscow, Khrushchev and Gromyko saw mild hope for a settlement...
Contrary to the impression Gromyko tried to create, none of these points is yet the accepted policy of the West, or even a firm basis for bargaining. Both Khrushchev and Gromyko are still loudly insisting that Western occupation troops be removed from Berlin, to be replaced by United Nations or "neutral" forces. Declared Rusk last week: "We will not treat that as a negotiable problem . . . The facts are that we are in West Berlin, and we are going to stay there." Nor would the U.S. grant Russia's East German satellite the recognition it wants...
...economic crisis gave Visitor Gromyko an opportunity to increase Soviet influence. Early during his visit, Gromyko had brushed off Foreign Minister Popovic's surprising endorsement of the latest U.S. proposals on Berlin ("I am very impressed-seems like the first real chance to solve the German question"). But just before he flew back to Moscow, the Soviet Foreign Minister-not a man who usually talks trade-had an unscheduled chat with Tito's top economist, Mijalko Todorovic, Vice President for economic affairs. Presumably their talk included the possible resumption of Soviet aid to Yugoslavia, suspended...
...Gromyko's chat may have paid off. Said one leading Yugoslav official after Gromyko's departure: "If we had to make formal application either to the Common Market or to Comecon, we would apply for full membership in Comecon, with the full knowledge of all the political and economic meaning of such a move...