The President's planned trip to Romania disrupts Soviet plans and triggers a political crisis in Italy, while intelligence agencies maintain a calculated silence on a Kenyan assassination.
North Korean officials evaded Bulgarian pressure to join a 1963 nuclear treaty, insisting that US atomic weapons in the South left no objective ground for international restraint.
Cuba refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty to counter the US presence at Guantanamo while Soviet leaders plotted to coerce Argentina and Brazil into accession.