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...Communiqué. The U.S. opened its diplomatic drive on the SEATO front when Secretary of State Rusk touched down in the steaming heat of Bangkok for a conference of member foreign ministers. Rusk was determined to get SEATO to declare that, if the Soviets did not respond favorably by midweek to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer, then SEATO "will take military measures to check further aggression." SEATO's Asian members-the Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos, who live in the shadow of Communism-strongly endorsed such a stand. But Rusk learned on his very first night in Bangkok that...
Convinced that the Russians would not and the Laotians could not stop the Red rebels, Kennedy appealed to the British to present a joint diplomatic front. London agreed. At midweek in Moscow, Britain's dapper Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts presented a joint Anglo-U.S. offer to the Kremlin. If the Russians would order a ceasefire, then the West would agree to convene the ineffectual three-nation International Control Commission for Laos -consisting of Canada, India and Communist Poland-to certify the truce. Furthermore, the West was willing to scuttle the present pro-Western Laotian government in favor...
...Boom. The rush to Washington began early, and by midweek it seemed easier to get a Cabinet job than a bed. Hotels, motels and boardinghouses were jammed, and the overflow reached as far away as Baltimore and Annapolis. Inaugural committees, swamped for tickets to the official functions, were in despair. It was hard enough to satisfy the requirements of the bigwigs who poured into town; even more embarrassing were the littlewigs who had been sent souvenir inaugural invitations and, mistaking them for the real thing, commandeered white ties and tails and rushed straightaway to Washington. Scalpers swept into action, unloaded...
Early this week, with the decks presumably cleared, Kennedy planned to fly to Washington for a party at the home of his sister Jean, to New York for another round of meetings, and then by midweek back to the capital. His exhausted camp followers could only hope that he would stand still long enough to get himself sworn in as the President...
...Only bright spot was the stock market. At midweek it staged a spirited rally that produced the best daily gain in three years, hiking the Dow-Jones industrial average 11.24. Then the market eased a bit, ending at 621.54 for a week's gain of 5.75. The market, like many businessmen, was waiting to see what the new Administration will do to spur business. A Kennedy-sponsored economic task force headed by M.I.T.'s Professor Paul Samuelson last week gave some hints. In a lengthy report (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it said that a temporary...