Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, considers all such arguments extraneous. A 1934 treaty clearly states that there can be no change in the status of Guantanamo without the specific consent of both sides. And on Guantanamo the U.S. has no intention of sitting down to negotiate with Castro. Said Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "We are in Guantanamo and will remain there for the foreseeable future. We shall certainly not discuss the future of Guantanamo with a regime that does not speak for the Cuban people and that has been unanimously condemned by the governments of this hemisphere...
...determination to keep the peace. Lyndon's aides had a few more figures to prove the point. Since Nov. 22, the President has held 175 separate meetings on foreign affairs, and has discussed national security 30 times with Defense Secretary McNamara, 51 times with Secretary of State Rusk, 31 times with the Central Intelligence Agency. He has, besides, fielded more phone calls on the subject than anyone except A.T. & T. would care to count...
...Rusk's worries about Zanzibar have come true, see THE WORLD...
...Testifying last month in closed hearings before a Senate subcommittee, Secretary of State Dean Rusk mused about his department and its problems. As made public this week, it was pretty fascinating. Excerpts...
...Roberto F. Chiari addressed a milling crowd of 3,000 demonstrators. There will be no diplomatic relations with the U.S., he cried, until the Americans promise to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty. "I will not deviate one instant from that position." In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk assured U.S. Senators that there would be no negotiations with Panama ''under pressure or threat of violence." Through the tense and confused week, neither side budged; an OAS mediation team could do little more than keep an uneasy peace...