Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like McNamara, who followed him, Rusk vowed that the U.S. will remain vigilant against the possibility of Soviet duplicity. Said he: "We shall be on the alert for any violations, and we have a high degree of confidence in our ability to detect them." In fact, Rusk went out of his way to assure the Senators that the Administration is not so naive as to think the treaty is based on mutual trust. "I don't believe that an agreement of this sort can rest upon the elements of faith and trust. The Soviet Union does not trust...
Another Pressure. In order, Seaborg, Taylor and McCone backed up the Rusk-McNamara argument that the treaty is in the best 'interests of the U.S. The Senate committeemen had been particularly anxious to hear Taylor. Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff, professional military men less interested in diplomatic advances than in U.S. might, support the test ban? Yes, said Taylor, they did. But some Senators were still concerned lest the Joint Chiefs had come to that decision not out of conviction but under pressure from the civilians of the Kennedy Administration. That fret was expressed in an exchange between...
...Last December, a U.S. Court of Appeals finally ruled that Venezuela had grounds for extradition, and Perez Jiménez was clamped in Miami's Dade County jail. Early last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk signed the extradition order, and Venezuelan security men hurried to Miami to take P.J. home. But his talented lawyers still had a few delaying moves left in their briefcases...
...country which does not have diplomatic relations with Moscow, has signed the treaty, leaving France isolated from all its continental neighbors. Most galling to Charles de Gaulle was West Germany's decision to sign the pact after a reassuring pitch in Bonn by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Bonn's action was doubly upsetting to France, for it followed an announcement that Germany and the U.S. will cooperate in the development of a new battle tank (TIME, Aug. 16); just three months ago, Paris was unable to reach agreement with the Germans on a similar project...
...Washington, where Henry Cabot Lodge was getting his final briefings before leaving to take over as new U.S. Ambassador in Saigon, Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared himself "deeply distressed" over the crisis and the detrimental effect it was having on the war against the Communist Viet Cong. Said Rusk: "We hope the government out there will take a strong lead to bring about a greater degree of peace and serenity...