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...bright morning last week the highest ranking Soviet official ever to visit the young German Federal Republic stepped down from a silvery Tu-104 jet airliner in Frankfurt, and in his honor West Germany grudgingly broke out the Soviet Russian flag. First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan had come to sign the $750 million, three-year trade agreement recently negotiated between Bonn and Moscow (TIME, April 21). As the ink dried on his signature, Mikoyan delivered a short and pointed speech: "If the American crisis continues it will have its effect on Europe. There will be more sellers than buyers...
...trade agreement will amount to only 5% of West Germany's foreign trade. Mikoyan himself recalled that Germany once sent 40% of its exports to Russia, and some of his hearers were reminded that the shrewd little Armenian had been around before: it was he who negotiated a trade agreement with Nazi Germany shortly before the cynical Molotov-Ribbentrop 1939 treaty that was the prelude to World...
...chill of such memories and the barrier of hostile intentions underlay all the official amenities. In the circumstances Mikoyan performed adroitly, alternating charm and the needle, and conceding nothing...
...Adenauer presented an $11,900 check to the fund for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, which German bombers destroyed in a 1940 raid. After three glowing days Adenauer returned to Germany, where this week he will play host to Russia's No. 2 man, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, whose visit to Bonn to sign the new Russia-West Germany trade pact is further evidence of West Germany's heightened prestige...
Almost everything about Mikoyan seems excessive-the sharpness and glitter of his dark eyes, the flash of his clenched teeth, and the arch in his nose, which looks like a small twisted club. He dresses with a certain flamboyance, and one visitor to Moscow, taking a good look at him, said, "A gangster in two silk shirts...