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Replying to Goldberg next day, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dismissed the U.S. suggestion as a "soap bubble," announced a step-up in aid to Hanoi, branded Washington a "barbarous" aggressor, and demanded nothing less than an American pullout from Viet Nam as the price for peace. Gromyko's intransigent tone made it obvious even to Secretary-General U Thant that the U.N. is not likely to be the arena in which the Viet Nam impasse will finally be broken...
...Fast Fade? But how? Under unremitting pressure from advocates of both the quick win and the fast fade, Johnson has hewed to this middle course all along. He is loath to ease the pressure, fearing that Hanoi would interpret such a move as a prelude to a pullout. He is also reluctant to risk any major intensification of the war, not only because it would entail vast additional expenditures and mobilization of the reserves, but because it might bring in Peking or Moscow. The President observed last week that he has not permitted bombing of Haiphong Harbor because when...
...dissuaded from a headlong retreat. He said that he was "very hopeful that the British would maintain their interest in that part of the world." Secretary of State Rusk publicly regretted Britain's decision, but he warned pointedly that aggressors in Asia "should take no comfort" from the pullout...
Last week they reacted with deep bitterness to the United Nations' failure to pass any resolution asking for an Israeli pullout from the conquered territory. The Palestine Liberation Organization even suggested that the Arabs set up their own rival U.N. with Red China, and Damascus radio said: "To hell with the U.N." More than a month after the war had ended, none of this brought the Arabs any closer to solving their basic problem in the war's aftermath: how to come back from defeat and live with a stronger Israel that is clearly here to stay, whether...
...British, this is less important than the now abandoned swing-wing scheme, which Defense Minister Denis Healey had characterized as "the core of our long-term aircraft program." Besides depriving Britain's ailing aircraft industry of one of its most advanced projects, the pullout may further aggravate the country's balance-of-payments problem; Britain, which has already placed a $300 million order for 50 F-llls, now may be forced to buy more of the U.S.-made fighters as substitutes for its own. As De Gaulle is only too well aware, that would strengthen...