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Over cocktails in Manhattan last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko inquired politely of Dean Rusk if Congress was still in session. Yes, it is, said the U.S. Secretary of State, explaining that it was dealing with home rule in the District of Columbia. Quipped Rusk: "It's one of our last vestiges of colonialism...
...What Rusk and other Administration officials could not foresee was that Lyndon Johnson's mighty efforts to end the capital's colonial status would come to naught. In one of the rare and least expected setbacks dealt him by the docile 89th Congress, the House last week killed Johnson's bill to give the District of Columbia the right to elect its own public officials and run its own affairs-a privilege last enjoyed in the federal city...
...worries, but it was the other China that attracted firsthand attention in the nation's capital. Mme, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, continued the "unofficial" visit she began last month, charming her hosts at a luncheon with 60 Senators and at a dinner given by Dean Rusk-and all the while discussing the danger of admitting Red China to the United Nations. Her wit and ebullience only served to increase the mystery of another, more retiring Nationalist Chinese visitor-one whom she knows well: Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, the Generalissimo's son by his first marriage...
Other Administration dropouts have found room at the top without writing a line about the Cuban crisis or J.F.K.'s opinion of Dean Rusk. Andrew Hatcher, a Negro who earned $18,000 as assistant White House press secretary, is now market-promotions manager for the Ballantine beer outfit. Another former press aide, Malcolm Kilduff, whose chief claim to fame is that he announced Kennedy's death to the press in Dallas, is in the $50,000-a-year bracket as a partner in a Washington public relations firm...
Resuming Arms. At week's end New Delhi was astir with reports of Red Chinese troop movements, not only on the Sikkim border but far to the west in Ladakh as well. In Washington, Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru strode into Secretary of State Dean Rusk's office to ask for resumption of U.S. arms shipments...