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...this looked fine to Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, even before the Camp David decision, he had seen what was coming and, in high good humor, summoned newsmen to the Kremlin for his second press conference since taking power (see FOREIGN NEWS). He told how his six-month deadline for the West to meet his Berlin demands had not really been hard and fast, and he accepted-without being formally notified-the May 11 date for the foreign ministers' conference, probably in Geneva. But real results, he said, could only come at the summit: "Let's put in the heavyweights...
...talks continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite...
German Reunification. Longstanding U.S. view: "immediate free elections" are a prerequisite to German reunification, a position that John Foster Dulles seemed to modify in a press conference when he said that there were other ways of arriving at reunification. Macmillan view: since Khrushchev will never agree to "immediate free elections," there is no sense in talking about them in connection with Berlin, as the U.S. insists. British spokesmen last week said that Macmillan had persuaded West Germany's Konrad Adenauer that reunification should be dropped down on the list of Western priorities. Tentative outcome of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks...
Last week, nearly eight months after Norton Sound (a 15,000-ton converted seaplane tender) steamed out of Port Hueneme, the world finally learned where she went and what she did. Warily, the Defense Department confirmed the New York Times's story (see PRESS) that the missile ship had fired three nuclear-armed rockets 300 miles into space in what one enthusiast called "the greatest scientific experiment ever conducted." If it was not quite that, it was certainly one of history's most spectacular scientific experiments. Its name: Project Argus. The glowing accounts of the scientific results...
While Western leaders from Camp David to Bad Godesberg sought ways to cope with his threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation...