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...veil came off with the parley's first agreement on a specific hurdle: Britain proposed to abandon Commonwealth preferential tariffs on a list of 400 manufactured goods it normally imports from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. In a mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared...
With only a few days to go before the U.S. launches its nuclear test series at Christmas Island, the Russians at Geneva last week continued the game by trying every conceivable stalling tactic to postpone the tests. At the 17-nation disarmament parley, Chief Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin insisted that the U.S. delay at least until after Easter. U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean recalled that the Russian had already violated one moratorium with their huge tests last fall. Said he: "We will not be burned twice by the same fire...
...destructive, Khrushchev repeated his invitation in sharper terms, only to be turned down by Kennedy again (although Macmillan reportedly urged him to accept). Meanwhile. President de Gaulle replied to K., ignoring the 18-member summit as far too big a shindig but proposing a more exclusive four-power parley (including France) on nuclear arms. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, who fears having the Berlin question dragged into disarmament negotiations, suggested a different kind of four-power conference, one that would deal only with the Berlin question...
Because the public "might interpret civil defense to mean that The Enemy threatens imminent death," popular hostility to the idea of negotiating with communist states could restrict America's ability to parley, the report warned...
Palaver over Parley. In Elisabethville, the bitter little two-week war was, for the moment, over; only the scattered shots of occasional snipers broke the temporary truce. The U.N. was in control, having achieved its "limited objective" as defined by U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball: "Freedom of movement for the peace-keeping forces, without the daily, bloody harassment by local Katanga troops, whipped into excited and irresponsible action by rumor, radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border...