Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Policy. In anger and frustration, 22 Senators, 21 of them Democrats, fired off a telegram to the President asking him to make an example of the Dominican military by recalling all U.S. diplomatic, military-and foreign-aid personnel. After a lengthy series of meetings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk recalled all U.S. economic and military-aid personnel from both the Dominican Republic and Honduras...
Missing the Circus. Rusk usually tried to arrange appointments so that ministers from the same geographic area did not follow one another; thus two Europeans, or two Asians, normally would not meet in the doorway. Similarly, he favored mixing "problem" countries with "no problem" countries-so that he could have a breather between controversial sessions. Sometimes "problem" ministers proved to be just the contrary. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Vaclav David, after probing for areas in which the U.S. and Czechoslovakia could expand trade, turned willingly to discussion of one longstanding problem. The Czechs, who in the past have refused...
Late in the week, Rusk was host at his Waldorf-Astoria suite to British For eign Secretary Lord Home and Russia's Andrei Gromyko for a two-hour lunch which featured roast veal, champagne, with a dessert of lukewarm detente...
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...
...Commitment. Last week Harold Macmillan's Cabinet agreed that Britain should at least sit in on the negotiations, and even that decision marked a minor triumph for Home. In a two-hour session with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the dogged Scot won U.S. acceptance of Britain's cautious condition that "participation as an observer is not a commitment." U.S. officials are hopeful nonetheless that when the time comes to sign the treaty establishing MLF, Britannia will want to join. "After all," hinted a British diplomat last week, "we hardly need to sit in on the talks just...