Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famed threat to capitalism in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev thundered "We will bury you." He has since insisted that Communism would win in an economic rather than a thermonuclear sense. But last week Khrushchev had to seek U.S. help to prevent his own economy from being buried. A Soviet trade mission asked to buy about $170 million's worth of U.S. wheat...
...behest to find ways of reconciling the Negro and white communities. White city officials deliberately failed to invite Negro leaders to the airport to welcome Blaik and Royall. Mayor Albert Boutwell, an ailing (diabetes) and so far totally unimpressive "moderate," set the tone by declaring that the Blaik-Royall mission would be of course purely advisory, added Birmingham's familiar refrain that past cooperation between the races had been "hampered largely by professional outside agitators." With that, he led the visitors off to a private lunch at Birmingham's exclusively white sanctuary, "The Club." Then early next morning...
...gathering also presented an ir resistible opportunity to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who gathered up his position papers and 33 aides, and shifted his headquarters from Foggy Bottom to the U.S. mission building, across from the U.N., for nine days of talks with some 70 visiting statesmen...
They discussed-in terms as bland as the meal-nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and the possibilities of stationing observers in both the Soviet Union and Western nations to guard against surprise attacks. Though nothing concrete came out of the lunch, Gromyko did invite Rusk to dinner at the Russian mission-another urgent date on Rusk's crowded U.N. schedule...
Huddles & Hikes. Greeted by U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and General Paul Harkins, commander of the 14,000-man U.S. military mission, McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plunged into their assignment: to find out whether the war on the Communists has been hurt by the Diem regime's barefisted handling of dissident Buddhists. In a windowless, soundproofed room of Saigon's cream stucco...