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This story may have placated allies in case of U-2 trouble, but it was bound to fall apart if both plane and pilot were captured. Conventional cloak-and-dagger types argued that the U.S. should have kept a discreet silence in the face of all talk about the U2. They wondered, too, why the U.S., if it really wanted to ensure against detection, could not have subcontracted the job to a foreign pilot without a country, perhaps a refugee from a Communist satellite...
...incident. And for all Khrushchev's claims, the U.S. was convinced that an oxygen-system failure or an en gine "flame-out" had forced Pilot Powers down within rocket range, and, most importantly, that the Soviets still do not have an antiaircraft rocket capable of reaching the U2's operating altitude...
...more than two years the leaders of the two great power blocs have been slowly picking their way toward the summit. This week, under the long, tapering shadow of the U2's wings, the summit conference and the dream of peaceful coexistence smashed against the rock of Nikita Khrushchev's intransigent belligerence...
...preconference talks with France's Charles de Gaulle and Britain's Harold Macmillan, Khrushchev's geniality vanished. Obviously sensitive to the U2's revelation of the vulnerability of Russia's defenses, he toughly asserted that Russia was five years ahead of the U.S. in missile and space research, had the power to destroy the U.S. or any other enemy. "He came for no small talk," glumly conceded a Macmillan aide. And West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, though excluded from the summit itself, had nervously flown to Paris to urge his allies to stand firm...
Drawing the Ring. The whole week before coming to Paris, Khrushchev had been bellowing like a wounded rogue elephant over the U2's invasion of Russian airspace. The U.S. had retorted tartly, producing exchanges that in bygone ages of diplomatic niceties would have been read by most people as the prelude to imminent...