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More Time. The ostensible purpose of Gordon Walker's trip was to lay the groundwork for a visit from Prime Minister Harold Wilson in December...
...China watchers conclude that Chou may be seriously ill, and perhaps is under treatment by the Italian specialist in heart ailments who was recently summoned to China supposedly to treat Party Boss Mao Tse-tung. There remains one other possibility: Chou En-lai may be in seclusion preparing the groundwork for the often postponed party congress, which has not met since 1956, though supposed to assemble every four years...
After nearly a year of intensive interparty bickering, Nikita Khrushchev finally ordered into motion the machinery that he hopes will rally assistance to his side in Moscow's ideological quarrel with Red China. He invited 25 Red delegations to Moscow on Dec. 15 to lay the groundwork for a full-scale summit meeting of the world's 90-odd Communist parties sometime in 1965. Nikita had hoped to convene his sub-summit this fall, but the recalcitrance of his Eastern European satellites-notably Poland and Rumania-forced him to delay. Both Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Rumania...
...last week for the long-awaited trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)- labeled the Kennedy Round because the late President gave them impetus -the air was heavy with torpor and reluctance. After more than a year of preliminary parleys that tried to lay a groundwork on which the conference could proceed, all the delegates had really agreed on was that they still have monumental disagreements to over come. GATT Executive Secretary Eric Wyndham White, whose job was to open the conference with a ringing keynote, had to admit the seriousness of the fail...
...Communist campaign is essential not only to the security of South Viet Nam but to that of Southeast Asia." They called on SEATO members to "remain prepared if necessary to take further concrete steps." That was a long way from any concrete SEATO help for Saigon, but laid the groundwork for collective aid in a real emergency...