Word: keita
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...letter to neutralist Presidents Keita of Mali and Sukarno of Indonesia (see following story), President Kennedy warned that "we do not intend to enter into negotiations under ultimata or threats. It is also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational...
...with the announced purpose of telling the host how to run the household. Thus President Kennedy last week made little effort to conceal his private irritation at a visit to Washington from Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno and Mali's towering (6 ft. 8 in.) President Modibo Keita, who had come, as representatives of neutralist nations, to urge the U.S. against taking any stands that might lead...
Since the visit was not official, neither guest was offered lodging at Blair House; Sukarno paid for the best suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and Keita stayed at the Mali embassy. At the airport, Kennedy seemed grim as he shook hands with the visitors, gave a bland speech of welcome that pointed up his own concern for peace. Wearing his customary sunglasses, pitji (pillbox hat) and rows of ribbons, fun-loving President Sukarno-who, during the recent Belgrade conference of neutralists, had spent many of his off-duty hours cavorting in a nightclub called the Snakepit-answered that he hoped...
...Keita, who wound up making a favorable impression on the President, urged Kennedy to work for peace, but told him not to be overly concerned about the opinions of the neutrals. Said he: "There aren't ten people in my country who know where Berlin...
Nehru-already scheduled to go to Moscow from Belgrade on a state visit-and Nkrumah were asked to take the Khrushchev letter. Sukarno then proposed that he and Mali's President Modibo Keita carry the Kennedy letter to Washington as official messengers. At the word "official." Nehru blew up. He would not be anybody's messenger, he declared. He would carry the message only in an unofficial capacity, insisted that Nkrumah go in a separate plane...