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Confrontation in Vienna. Aside from demonstrating just how far disaffection in the Senate has spread, the session did serve another purpose. It laid out, occasionally with eloquence, the basic positions of the Administration and its less extreme critics. Rusk recalled the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation in Vienna: "In effect, Chairman Khrushchev said to this young President of ours, 'Take your troops out of Berlin or there will be war.' It was necessary for this young President to say, Then Mr. Chairman, there will be war.' " Had the Russian leader believed that Kennedy lacked support at home, Rusk said...
Steps Taken. Alarmed by earlier buying of gold, the same central bankers, only six days before their Washington conference, had held a similar session in Basel. There the Fed's Martin reasserted the U.S. intention of maintaining a $35-an-ounce price on gold, persuaded his peers to keep the pool going. In spite of their agreement to do so, rumors spread-and were vigorously denied-that both Belgium and Italy were dropping out of the pool; the rumors only fanned the flames of speculation. Martin emerged from the Basel meeting to describe himself as "satisfied" with its decisions...
...Poland, where the government has lately become more brittle and restrictive than ever in silencing its critics and banning what does not please it. The regime's heavy-handed treatment of Poland's cultural community has become so oppressive that last week, meeting in the first extraordinary session of its 48-year history, some 350 members of the Polish Writers' Union voted to draw the line at the government's most recent crackdown. In a strongly worded resolution, they accused the Gomulka regime of throttling Poland's cultural life...
...them once and for all; the city's other daily, the Los Angeles Times, has no unions. "I wish I could see the end in sight," says Robert Rupert, international representative of the American Newspaper Guild. "But there's been no progress. I go into each negotiating session with the hope that we can discuss the issues, but management just won't talk. It turns into a monologue with me doing the talking and them just sitting there...
Other problems come up when one member unknowingly tries to turn the session into group therapy by saying that the supervisor is lousy or that the day leader isn't doing his job or that the whole philosophy of the group is wrong--raising the anxiety of the group in order to get attention for himself. At that point, rather delicate handling of the situation is needed to keep it from becoming group therapy, or to keep the one from being clobbered by the rest of the group...