Word: summits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 15--Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet first deputy premier, said today his country still wants a summit conference on world problems and the West cannot sidestep one forever...
...talk to President Eisenhower and top U.S. officials, to sound out the firmness of the U.S.'s determination to stay on in Berlin. Mikoyan may try to arrange a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Big Two parley (the U.S. has insisted that Britain and France must take part in any summit conference), possibly a Khrushchev visit to the U.S. Besides spending four or five days in Washington, Mikoyan may make a fast fortnight's tour of major U.S. cities-reportedly including Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles. San Francisco-to get the feel of U.S. opinion...
American Airlines moved closer to settling the 2½-week-old walkout of 1,500 pilots. American's gritty President C. R. Smith flew to Washington for a summit conference with the hard-bitten boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association, Clarence Sayen. Pressure was on both sides to settle before American starts to lay off most of its 20,500 nonstriking employees this week. Probable terms: three pilots in jets, higher pilot pay and improved benefits...
...Successfully countered Nikita Khrushchev's year-long campaign to bluff, panic and cajole the allies into an empty summit meeting designed only to divide allies and get Western acceptance of Communist conquests...
...difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued that instead of rejecting the Soviet ultimatum outright, the West should counter by proposing a summit talk to discuss other matters as well, including German reunification and disarmament...