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While Airmen Olmstead and McKone were still in their Soviet cells last week, Secretary Rusk explained to top State staffers the possibility that they would soon be released. He also expressed a worry. "The one thing I fear," he said, "is that Americans will think the Russians have really changed, that they're softening, that the worst is over." It would be just as bad if the Administration itself, however happy about effecting the release of the American airmen, were to place too much stock in Nikita Khrushchev's cold war gambit.