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...sooner did Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan arrive in New York last week, after 24 days of confabs with Castro, than he began posing for photographers while chomping hot dogs in the fashion of an old Brooklyn Dodgers fan. He spent a friendly evening with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, much of it occupied by discussion of such matters as Pushkin's short stories. Bantering with newsmen, Mikoyan cracked that Stevenson was "more difficult" than Castro...
Even so, he loved them both-"Stevenson da, Castro da," But it was nyet, nyet, nyet when Mikoyan settled down to serious discussion of Cuba. During Mikoyan's small-talk sessions with Stevenson, some U.S. officials spoke of the possibility that the Russian was waiting to see President Kennedy before really doing business...
...fact could hardly have been further from the hope. Mikoyan flew from New York to Washington, spent more than three hours with Kennedy, who was flanked by State Secretary Dean Rusk and former Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy'') Thompson. Kennedy found himself enjoying the matching of wits with Mikoyan, and the dueling went straight on without the coffee break that has become customary during such afternoon sessions in the President's office. But when the two were done, they were still where they had started...
...Caves. After two weeks of palaver with Castro, Russia's Anastas Mikoyan kept delaying his departure; the world could have no notion about what mischief the two might have cooked up, but in his infrequent public pronouncements, Mikoyan echoed only the intransigent Castro line. The U.S. naval blockade of Cuba continued, but it seemed mostly a matter of form: so far. the U.S. has passed 48 of the 49 foreign ships that entered the blockade area on to Cuba without boarding. Government spokesmen said they were satisfied that Russia's "offensive" missiles have indeed been removed from Cuba...
When Fidel Castro publicly admitted "a well-founded reason for discontent" developing between Cuba and the Soviet Union, Mr. Mikoyan raced for Havana. By its lack of interest in this discontent, however, the Administration suggests that its ultimate aim is not to undermine Soviet control but simply to crush socialism, autonomous or not, in the Caribbean. It is hard to believe that the government, cherishing an image of monolithic Communism, is actually insensitive to the distinction...