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...missile (ABM) system of its own. The Administration hopes to avoid this and is attempting to persuade the Russians to enter an agreement under which neither the U.S. nor the Soviets would deploy ABMs; to that end, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson is now holding talks with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. In London two weeks ago, Kosygin made a press-conference statement that seemed to discourage an ABM ban. A system that deters attack, said the Premier, is not a factor in the arms race. "On the contrary, it is a factor that reduces the possibility of the destruction of people...
...face of it, this sounded eminently reasonable. Yet Kosygin must know that the implications of either a Russian or American ABM buildup cannot so easily be brushed aside...
Like Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny in Italy a week earlier, Kosygin got a friendly welcome in Britain-though anti-Communist demonstrators dogged his path. When he could get away from the high and mighty, Kosygin got to shake a few plebeian hands, sometimes in response to cries of: "Give us a shake, mate." At one point a pretty 18-year-old girl popped past police escorts, greeted him with: "Hello, my old fruit."* Replied Kosygin gravely: "You are the young Britain I want to meet. I wish you peace and prosperity...
Friendly Welcome. Despite all this amiability, Kosygin went right on to say some unpleasant things about Britain's major allies. At the Guildhall luncheon, as Prime Minister Harold Wilson sat grim-lipped, Kosygin made a ritualistic attack on the U.S. as "the only cause of the war in Viet Nam." He discouraged U.S. hopes for an accord on halting the anti-missile missile race. He also launched a rude and ill-advised diatribe against the new Bonn government of Kurt Kiesinger, warning that Nazism and militarism were on the rise in West Germany. In 15 hours of private talks...
According to leaks from the supposedly secret Warsaw meeting (among those present: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who decided not to accompany Premier Kosygin to Britain in order to attend), the Poles and East Germans urged their neighbors to stop an unseemly rush to Bonn. If they must establish relations, ran the advice, they at least ought to support East Germany in rejecting Bonn's claim to be the sole legitimate representative of the German people. The pleas did not have much effect, and the communiqueé issued at the meeting's end was so bland that...