Word: kosygin
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Metternichian Minuet. However, the Soviet position was made doubly complicated by the broad opportunity that Kosygin's presence in the U.S. offers for top-level talks between the Big Two. There were clear indications that both sides would welcome such talk; but a bitter public exchange in the U.N. might well reduce both the inclinations and the opportunity...
...Metternichian minuet that seemed strangely out of place in the nuclear age, both Kosygin and Lyndon Johnson at week's end delicately refrained from making the first move. Kosygin feared that if he asked for a Washington meeting with the U.S. President, the Arabs would suspect him of a double cross, while Peking, which has already accused Moscow of "a perfidious betrayal, a monstrous sellout," would crow even more loudly. As for Johnson, White House Press Secretary George Christian said that if Kosygin wished to sit down and talk, the President "will, of course, be glad...
...Prime Minister Harold Holt, and mending some local fences. Instead, after flying down to Austin for a long-scheduled Democratic fund-raising dinner at week's end, he jetted back to Washington the same night, touching down at 3:30 a.m., an hour and a half before Kosygin's arrival in New York. Johnson also shifted his weekend meeting with Holt from the L.B.J. Ranch to Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, where Khrushchev conferred with Dwight Eisenhower...
Tour d'Horizon. Soviet officials, meanwhile, bustled around Washington on the eve of Kosygin's arrival in New York, dropping broad hints that if Johnson were willing to break the ice, talks might prove highly profitable. The Soviet Premier, they said, was prepared to join Johnson in a tour a"horizon encompassing not only the Mideast but also Viet Nam, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and mutual limitations on costly new anti-ballistic missile systems. Another likely topic: Red China's successful explosion of a hydrogen bomb...
Clearly, if such a meeting were to take place-let alone get anywhere-Kosygin would have to demonstrate a remarkable degree of flexibility and reasonableness in his advocacy of the Arab cause before the U.N. and millions of U.S. televiewers. Though his Moslem clients would hardly relish a restrained stance by Moscow, they should be well aware by now that the task of constructing a peaceful Middle East is as far beyond their own means as have been their military efforts over the past decade. A just settlement of the ancient feud between Arab and Jew will not be easy...