Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to put Gromyko's words to the test. In response to the Foreign Minister's statement, Secretary of State William Rogers urged the Soviets to follow through on their stated willingness to open arms talks. The White House is interested in probing possibilities for an eventual summit conference, but only after some areas of agreement are found. As Nixon said last February, "I take a dim view of what some have called 'summitry,' particularly where there are grave differences of opinion between those who are to meet." The differences between the U.S. and Russia remain...
...less than a year. His first was Nov. 8, 1968, illustrating President Johnson's announcement of the bombing halt. The others included France's De Gaulle and the money crisis (Nov. 29, 1968), conglomerates (March 7, 1969), the military under attack (April 11, 1969), and the Communist summit (June 13, 1969). Recently, Wheeler received a copy of this last cover from a cousin working in South Korea. All the leaders' faces had been brushed with ink, though the text remained unchanged. Under Korea's anti-Communist laws, sample copies of magazines must be shown...
...President Ngo Dinh Diem finally pushed through a law that granted tenant farmers the right to buy plots they were tilling. Because of the peasants' lack of money and the inefficiency of the Vietnamese bureaucracy, Diem's program failed. At the 1966 Honolulu summit, the South Vietnamese promised to make land reform a major part of the pacification program. Saigon did not make any real progress until three months ago, when Thieu put Than, a University of Pittsburgh-trained economist, in charge of the Agriculture Ministry and gave top domestic priority to land reform...
Understandably, the Rumanians were more circumspect. In all likelihood, Ceausescu told the Soviet leaders about his invitation to Nixon during last month's Communist summit meeting in Moscow. The Soviets offered no objections to the visit. In fact, Soviet diplomats in Washington and Moscow were soon passing the word that the presidential excursion into their own backyard would not endanger the Big Four talks on the Mideast. Nor, they said, would it delay the start of the U.S. -Soviet arms talks, expected to begin in August...
...Reflecting the new policy of President Georges Pompidou, Chaban-Del-mas declared: "We are ready to go as fast and as far in the quest of European unification as our partners." To prove France's change of heart, the Premier held out the promise of a European summit. "France is ready to participate in a meeting of the chiefs of state or chiefs of government of the six nations of the community," he said...