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First stop on the trip was Washington, where President John F. Kennedy gave the group a 35-minute background briefing on Europe as seen from the standpoint of U.S. interest, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, over lunch, conducted a candid tour of the diplomatic horizons the tour would cross. By the next night the businessmen-turned-journalists were in London, where at a late-hour briefing four of TIME'S key European correspondents-Robert T. Elson (London), Curtis Prendergast (Paris), James Bell (Bonn) and Israel Shenker (Moscow)-filled them in on the people they would...
...progress made so far has been laughably small compared to what remains to be done. Few of the suburbs have been integrated, and none of those that offer the best housing and schols. Dean Rusk's neighbors in suburban Spring Valley had to sign restrictive covenants forbidding the sale of their houses to Negroes or Jews. (Rusk made a special agreement which excepted him from signing the covenant.) Even the more attractive sections of Washington proper still exclude Negroes, although the number of discriminatory areas in the city is small...
...Risers. By now, word of the coup was reaching the world in fragments. Apparently, the first top official in Washington to hear about it was John McCone, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, who had word flashed to him as early as 1:25 a.m. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was out of bed at 2 a.m., the President...
Only two days after Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Frankfurt repeated the U.S. pledge to maintain six divisions in West Germany, newspapers reported that the U.S. has "scheduled the withdrawal" of an armored cavalry regiment from Germany. Sooner or later it may indeed be withdrawn but not for the time being. Anyway, the 5,000-man regiment plus five other regiments were rushed to Germany at the height of the Berlin crisis in 1961 in order to reinforce the six U.S. divisions committed to NATO. These temporary reinforcements would all have been brought back after the crisis eased...
...When we say your defense is our defense, we mean it," said Rusk. "We have proved it in the past. We will continue to demonstrate it in the future...