Washington was talking tough. Twice last week Dean Rusk's State Department answered back to recent Soviet efforts to twist the means of international diplomacy for Russia's own ends.
¶In an angry formal note on the slow-moving Geneva nuclear test-ban talks, the State Department accused the Soviet Union of "sabotaging" the negotiations. Specifically, the U.S. statement answered the Soviet demand for a three-man administrative councilrather than a single, neutral directorto supervise nuclear-test inspections. "The Government of the U.S.," said the note, "believes that this rejection of the idea of an international civil servant acting impartially under guidance from international policy-making organs...
