Word: kosygin
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...response to Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin's assertion in London that a halt in the bombing could lead to negotiations, the White House answered: "Mr. Kosygin commented on the military action the U.S. should take, but made no mention of the military action the other side should take...
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin has apparently spent most of his time with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson discussing the chances for peace in Vietnam. He must realize, along with most of the Red leaders in Eastern Europe, that as long as Communist China is preoccupied with its cultural revolution, the burden of supporting North Vietnam with arms and materiel will fall increasingly on the European bloc of Communism...
...Kosygin, who has spent most of his career as an economic planner and administrator, is particularly attuned to the rising consumer demands in his country, and in the countries Eastern Europe. He probably feels that the mounting expense of aiding the anti-American forces is not justified by the immediate results. More important, it occupies a significant portion of the Soviet budget which he no doubt thinks could be better spent on domestic priorities...
...Kosygin, to his credit, has aparently conceded the futility of such a demand. For he, maybe Ho, realize that a twenty-year was culminating in victory is of little consolation at this time. The Soviet government has more pressing concerns than the possibility that a part of Vietnam may not become Communist. President Johnson would do well to appreciate Kosygin's attitude, stop the bombing, and end the war so that he, too, can get more done at Home...
...most significant statement Kosygin has made in London is that, as many commentators and diplomats have suggested recently, if American bombing of the North Stops, peace talks could get under way. That statement would seem to imply that some of the preconditions Hanoi had previously set for talks have been discarded. Recent reports from the North itself indicate that Hanoi's four-point formula no longer has to be accepted in its entirety before Ho enters talks. One of the four points-that the future affairs of South Vietnam must be settled according to the program of the National Liberation...