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Last week brought a harsh and sudden intensification of events. In Laos, the Pathet Lao guerrillas advanced toward Luangprabang, the royal capital. In the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko truculently renewed the Communist offensive against Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. In Geneva, when U.S., British and Russian delegates to the nuclear-test-ban conference met again after a 3½-month recess, the Soviet delegate started off with a belligerence that appeared to rip apart the fragile little structure of agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word...
Soft Talk. Since Khrushchev had little to lose by negotiation under such terms, he might well decide to negotiate. At week's end Foreign Minister Gromyko asked for a conference with the President, was granted time for this Monday. Kennedy, meanwhile, got in touch with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in the West Indies en route to the U.S., and the two met on Sunday in Key West...
...talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues until the Russians called off the invasion...
...Congo itself was quiet-a minimum of killings, no invasions, no kidnapings. The noise was mostly to be heard 6,400 miles away in Manhattan, where Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko put on a show in the U.N. Assembly that went pretty far even for Gromyko...
...observed that Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko did not "give an inch" during his lengthy conference with Secretary of State Rusk last week, and added that the Russians probably would not change their position...