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Presumably, Mahon would have withheld from the nation even such sparse information about Cuba as was officially forthcoming last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for one, reported that enough Soviet shipping is on the way to Cuba to remove "several thousand" Russians. That, of course, will leave several thousand others still in Cuba. The activities of those Russians, both military and civilian, were the highlight last week of a notable CBS-TV "Eye Witness" program...
...State Department men tell it, White House staffers play a game they call "Frontier." The first player starts off by naming a plausible shift in New Frontier personnel-like "Bundy for Rusk." The man whose turn is next must come up with a reasonable candidate for the displaced person's job-as in "Rusk for Stevenson." A player must drop out of the game if he comes up with a patently implausible shift-such as "Stevenson for McNamara." It is remarkable how often the game starts off with Secretary of State Dean Rusk as the first to be replaced...
This sort of thing is the cause of considerable resentment among Rusk's many admirers within the State Department. In the department cafeteria last week, two young Foreign Service officers engaged in an earnest lunchtime conversation. "How can he stand it?" asked one of them angrily. "Every time he turns around, it's Bundy or Bobby, Bobby or Bundy. Why doesn't he walk out and let those White House brain-trusters louse things up? That's what I would do." The other man nodded solemnly. "I would too," he said...
...Plans." At that very moment, Rusk was lunching, eight floors above, with West Germany's Walter Hallstein, chief administrator of the Common Market. If he had any worries about his future, he did not show them. But the rumors about Rusk are rampant in Washington: the President has shunted him aside, Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy has displaced him as the No. 1 foreign policy adviser, Rusk is about to resign, his successor will be Bundy or maybe even Bobby Kennedy. "I shudder at this possibility," says a State Department official, "but I know too much...
Confusion Through Sensitivity. The attempted concealment of the flyers' deaths is just one example of the Kennedy Administration's acute sensitivity on all matters involving U.S.-Cuba relations-and that sensitivity often leads to confusion. Thus, speaking in Houston last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk insisted that "Cuba will not be permitted to use any of its arms outside Cuba. A Soviet military presence on that island cannot be accepted." That brought a wry retort from Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken. "I wish," said Aiken, "that Secretary Rusk could make that determination retroactive, because...