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...blessing. But even as the flyers left for Kansas at week's end, pundits around the world were already debating the deeper significance of their adventure. DETENTE. THE HORIZON CLEARS, cheered headlines in Paris' L'Humanité. "We welcome this action as removing one obstacle to Soviet-American relations," said a British Foreign Office spokesman. The London Daily Telegraph was more skeptical, and more realistic: "We should not forget that it has for many years been the practice of Soviet diplomacy to take up indefensible positions, and then to expect gratitude when some small retreat is made...
Ranging in age from about 20 to 35 years old, the Russians reached the United States Monday for a month long visit. The visit is part of the exchanges negotiated under the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement governing Soviet-American cultural exchanges...
Twelve Russian students will visit the University for several days next month as part of a Soviet-American cultural exchange program. The twelve, half of a twenty-four man delegation spending a month in the United States, will be in Cambridge from October 28 to November...
Back from his swing through the Urals and Siberia, Nixon had gone into seclusion at the U.S. embassy for two days to draft the speech for what he saw as an unprecedented opportunity to speak plainly about Soviet-American relations. He sweated his first draft of 5,000 words down to 2,000 to fit into half an hour, with another 30 minutes' time for translation. At his side as he spoke was his own interpreter, the U.S. State Department's Alexander Akalovsky, charged with translating in the most effective way possible-thought by thought, but never more...
Anastas Mikoyan radiated respectability. He glowed good will to all men (see below). He probed his duly relaxed U.S. audiences to determine resistance to precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...