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Free of Flak. The first such signal was flashed when Secretary of State Dean Rusk met Gromyko at the United Nations last month and found the atmosphere refreshingly free of polemic flak. Kremlinologists thought they detected an extra beep when Gromyko, in the midst of an otherwise vituperative speech to the General Assembly, remarked: "Even when other centers of international tension appear, Europe still remains the barometer of the world's political weather." That, in the convoluted language of Soviet diplomacy, appeared to mean that the Russians, whatever they may say in public, are tired of letting Viet...
...from what was said that Moscow would like to see a settlement there, but will not lift a finger toward that end until Hanoi gives the go-ahead. Leaving the White House by the back door, Gromyko headed for the State Department for a shrimp and lamb dinner with Rusk. The talk centered on prospects for a nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. "Gromyko made it very clear," said one official, "that there will be no agreement, now or in the future, by which Germany could move into a nuclear force." Even so, the fact that Gromyko and, obviously, his bosses were willing...
There is little prospect of reaching any such agreement in the near future. Rusk pointed out that talks "are now concentrated on clearing the underbrush" and nothing more. In other areas, however, Washington sees more cause for hope. Veteran Sovietologist (and newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Moscow) Llewellyn Thompson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Moscow now feels much freer to act than it did just a few months ago. Red China, he reasoned, is in such bad odor with the rest of the Communist world that the Russians no longer cringe whenever Peking accuses them...
Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist Premier of Laos, is a sophisticated fellow who was educated in Paris. He was in the U.S. last week to advise President Johnson on Asian policy and to discuss with Dean Rusk the problems of his own divided kingdom. Not once, however, did he mention the problem that matters most, because Washington, with all its marbled wisdom, just would not have understood. A dragon threatens to defeat him in the January elections...
...Fudge Factory." The importance of finding a successor to Ball was heightened by the possibility that Secretary of State Rusk, suffering from fatigue and financial strain, may in time decide to step down. Johnson's first choice for Ball's job, and a possible successor to Rusk, was Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, a former aide of Harry Truman. The bait was rejected by Clifford and other prospects. So L.B.J. decided to worry about Rusk's successor later, settled on the Attorney General...