While John Connally was packing his briefcase for the Rome money meeting, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans was in Moscow cultivating officials of the Soviet Union. The Administration hopes to raise the level of U.S.-Soviet trade to as much as $2 billion a year by the mid-1970s. Last year's turnover was only $190 million, or about the same as U.S. trade with Honduras.
The Soviets were giving careful attention to the Stans mission. Shortly after he landed in Moscow, the Secretary was whisked into the Kremlin for a 31-hour meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There, and in subsequent discussions throughout...
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