Word: kosygin
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...part by the President's hasty dispatch of his top White House foreign relations advisor, McGeorge Bundy, to Saigon. Bundy's trip inevitably stirred speculation that the U.S. might be planning to expand the Vietnamese war, or, since the Bundy mission coincided with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Hanoi (see THE WORLD), that the U.S. and the Communists were entering into negotiations. The President sharply and convincingly knocked down that idea-both with words and, at week's end, action...
Saying, however, that he doubted the Soviets, because of domestic difficulties, had any desire to become involve, Hoffmann questioned the wisdom of scheduling the retaliatory bombings to coincide with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin's presence in North Vietnam...
...bombings have, however, indirectly--and probably inadvertently--expanded a whole area of opportunity which American diplomats would do well to explore. Just hours before the American jets flew over their targets, Russian Premier Kosygin arrived in Hanoi. He travelled there to foster Russian interests in South East Asia, out Russian interests, in this situation, coincide rather closely with American interests...
...just that. It spoke of "brotherly friendship and complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...been called to discuss defense matters, a more pressing issue to the East European Reds was the imminent (March 1) preparatory conference called by the Kremlin to discuss Moscow's ideological quarrel with Peking. This was the same monster rally originally scheduled by Nikita Khrushchev for last December. Kosygin and Brezhnev postponed the showdown's date and changed the tenor of the proposed conference from truculence to "objective" discussion of Russo-Chinese differences...