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Nonetheless, Soviet officials last week charged that the U.S. proposal amounted to setting "preliminary conditions" on the space talks. They declared that this was "totally unsatisfactory," and that it amounted to a "negative reply" to the Soviet proposal. But over breakfast with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz stressed that the U.S. had taken a "positive approach" to the Vienna talks. At a White House barbecue for foreign diplomats, Reagan and Shultz met Dobrynin and held an animated discussion with him. "We'll be there if you'll be there," Reagan told Dobrynin...
...prose, he seemed to be genuine about pursuing the talks. He wrote a personal letter to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, which echoed his public stand on the proposed space talks. The letter and a message from Shultz were given to Dobrynin to take back to Moscow. Heading home, the Ambassador stepped off his plane during a London stopover to find a band playing the Star-Spangled Banner and a crowd waving American flags. The Administration was not responsible - it was all part of a July 4 salute to the U.S. from British Airways...
...estimate, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, 64, has performed rites over the carcasses of 2,500 cold salmon sacrificed in the search for world brotherhood. The salmon were nibbled into oblivion, but Dobrynin goes on, a monument to cunning and a thoroughly disciplined alimentary canal...
Last week the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador sat at Ronald Reagan's dinner table. Then, in 48 hours, he was headed back to Moscow carrying his impression of the President and some private U.S. messages to his Soviet bosses, urging talks on the subjects of superpower tension. At the White House, during a dinner for the diplomatic corps, Dobrynin was served some of Bob Herdman's boneless strip sirloin barbecue, pinquito beans, salsa, marinated artichoke hearts and toasted, buttered sourdough bread. Dobrynin got an all-American message: good fellowship with peppers...
...Democratic national chairman, was almost silent. House Democratic Majority Whip Tom Foley looked content. The gallant, crippled Jacob Javits, former Republican Senator from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination. Max Kampelman, who was one of Hubert Humphrey's whiz kids from Minnesota, cocked his ear for each nuance. The Senator's daughter, Anna Marie Jackson, 21, wept...