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Beyond Berlin. Without question, the additions to U.S. defense strength and the new, ready-for-anything national attitude would help John Kennedy's diplomats in any discussions with the Soviet Union. During the Laotian peace talks-which still drag on in Geneva-Communist diplomats have refused to believe that the U.S. would carry out its halfhearted threats to defend either Laos or embattled South Viet Nam with force of arms-and U.S. negotiators have been unable to prove them wrong. Aware now that the U.S. at last means business, Tass, in its bitter response to Kennedy's speech...
...picture window"-a new feature of the capsule-but was at first too dazzled to see much. "Boy," he reported, "that sun is really bright." Later he saw the clouded coastline far below, watched the sky grow blacker-and became so fascinated with the view that he could hardly drag himself back to his duties...
Special Area. Since they will offer neither new arguments nor new facts, the four memorandums represent only a tentative response to the latest and most worrisome of Soviet bullyboy operations. If Khrushchev persists in his determination to drag West Berlin behind the Iron Curtain, the ultimate answer, the U.S. has already hinted, could be nuclear war. Yet for the peace-minded free world, war would be a ruinous solution to a problem that could have been so easily resolved in September...
...past patterns hold, the negotiations will drag on almost up to the expiration of the current Big Three contracts on Aug. 31. One auto executive described the probable course of bargaining: 1) the "once-over-lightly" stage; 2) the "hell-to-pay and no-bread-in-the-house" stage, in which, for a month or more, both company and union will indignantly denounce each other's proposals; 3) the "clutch" stage, in which, with the contract about to expire, both sides will abandon histrionics and coolly decide what they can afford to give or take...
...week's end Castro agreed to the committee's proposal for sending the six technicians, but insisted that they have power to discuss the "quality and amount" of the "indemnification" demanded by Cuba. That was where things stood, but it was perfectly predictable that Dictator Castro would drag the whole grisly negotiation out as long as possible-and then, maybe, turn the entire proposition down. As the negotiations and the cable exchanges went on last week, the public furor within the U.S. became increasingly intense. Many Americans believed deeply that the U.S. had a moral obligation...