Word: kosygin
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...public proceedings, it was the Administration's view that Johnson's presence there?regardless of summitry?could only invest the session with unwarranted dignity. Yet the U.S. had to speak out. For a forum, Johnson selected a State Department briefing for educators just an hour before Kosygin was to take the podium at the U.N. The President gave a sober, statesmanlike prescription for sanity in the Middle East. His "five great principles of peace in the region" called for each nation's "fundamental right to live" and be respected by its neighbors, "justice" for Arab refugees, unfettered maritime rights, control...
Johnson then went to the White House to take his turn before the TV set. Kosygin, the economics expert who typifies the pragmatic new Soviet man, did little in his U.N. debut but rehearse the catechism of Kremlin clichés. He did, hopeful U.S. diplomats noted, leave open a minuscule area for potential negotiation by acknowledging Israel's right to national existence and mentioning the need for a "common language" among the great powers. Otherwise he sounded like a technocrat's Molotov...
Aleks in Wonderland. Kosygin castigated U.S. policy from Santo Domingo to Saigon, worked in West German revanchism and, straight-faced, held up Soviet respect for the right of "every people to establish an independent national state of its own" as an example the U.S. might follow. On the Middle East, he was strictly Aleks in Wonderland. Israel was the "unbridled aggressor," guilty of "unprecedented perfidy" and encouraged, of course, by the U.S. He likened Israel's actions to "the heinous crimes perpetrated by the fascists during World War II." Demanding U.N. condemnation of Israeli aggression, immediate and unconditional withdrawal...
Thus the pyrotechnic efforts by Kosygin to prove that Moscow meets its obligations. "The Soviet Union," he promised at the U.N., "will undertake all measures within its power, both in the United Nations and outside, in order to achieve the elimination of the consequences of aggression...
Duplex Diplomacy. Did he mean it? As at least token proof, Russian-made MIGs?more than 100 of them?have arrived in the U.A.R. and Syria to begin replacing the estimated 400 planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate...