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Obviously trying to reduce resentment all around, the new Premier declared a moratorium on Jordan's anti-Nasser broadcasts, proclaimed a widespread political amnesty. He also ordered a probe of Jordanian officials suspected of corruption, promised to devote more care to the problems of the country's Palestinian population. All this pleased the unruly Palestinians, who saw other good omens: a heavy rainfall will mean good crops for 1962, and Wasfi's appointment coincided with the birth of Hussein's first son, Prince Abdullah, borne him by his 20-year-old British wife Toni...
...Soviet postwar relations have gone through cycles of freeze and mild thaw-but the Kennedy Administration has experienced mainly cold weather. When Kennedy first took office, he naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist crisis stirring while his Administration got its house in order...
...great East-West crises looked as bristling as ever, the world was learning more every week about the ideological issues that are pitting Communist against Communist. Perhaps it is Khrushchev, this time, who in effect is asking for an agreement to disagree amiably for a few months, a little moratorium while he puts his house in order...
...whole field of disarmament. So, I think there has been no basic difference, except to this extent: that if we could go so far in setting up these reciprocal intelligence-not intelligence, inspectional-systems, that underneath the so-called threshold we could certainly have a continuation of a moratorium that would permit opportunity for a joint or coordinated study and program for permanent elimination of those tests...
Naive Request. In foreign affairs, understanding of the difficulties came more slowly to the President. At the outset, Kennedy naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist troublemaking while the new Administration got its house in order. In response, Communist guerrillas began gobbling even more hungrily at faraway Laos. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came to the White House to sound out the new President. In the Rose Garden, Kennedy sternly warned Gromyko of the danger of pushing the U.S. too far in a situation where its prestige was at stake. Gromyko listened-and the guerrillas kept...