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...Washington, President John Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed East-West tensions for two hours. They settled nothing, but top-level talks between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would continue, and the Berlin crisis seemed to be easing slightly...
...first real presidential rest, Kennedy clearly felt that he was on top of his job. His confidence showed through as he attacked matters of state and as he handled the chores of routine and ritual. In his end-of-week confrontation with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko over Berlin, the President was cool and collected, making it clear that the U.S., while willing to negotiate, would not be bludgeoned to the conference table. Meeting Thailand's Foreign Minister Nai Thanat Khoman, Kennedy expressed his blunt concern that some Southeast Asian nations seemed less than enthusiastic about fighting in defense...
Back in Moscow after three weeks in the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this week faces the job of reporting to his boss, Nikita Khrushchev, who in turn faces the task of mounting a big show before the forthcoming 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress. Neither Gromyko nor Khrushchev have any real claim to success in Russia's effort to push the West out of Berlin...
...Gromyko: Sophistry. Gromyko listened stonily to Kennedy-except for a thin smile at a Kennedy gibe comparing Khrushchev's wall building in Berlin to the Czar's orders in Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Next day, in his reply, Gromyko used a tone that was-by Russian standards-moderate, particularly on Berlin. But there was little in his words be yond a recital of well-known Soviet points: Russia will not accept a treaty to end nuclear tests, said Gromyko, for the whole matter should be tied in with (and, presumably, stalled by) the tangled question of overall...
With dazzling Soviet sophistry, Gromyko dismissed talk of a "crisis...