Word: anatoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to buy secret information from a U.S. naval officer; in October they were sentenced to 50 years in prison for espionage. Even before the trial ended, negotiations for a swap began. President Carter directed National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to conduct the talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The discussions went on for months in the offices of both negotiators, occasionally in Brzezinski's house in McLean, Va., where his daughter and Dobrynin's granddaughter sometimes rode horses together...
...downs," says a U.S. official, "but it finally congealed." Moscow promised that the dissidents would soon be joined in the West by members of their immediate families. The Americans, however, failed to win the release of Anatoli Shcharansky, the leading Jewish dissident who was jailed for treason last summer. He was apparently too much of a symbol of resistance to the Soviet regime to be allowed to go free...
When SALT will be sent to the Senate is unclear, despite strong indications that the U.S.-Soviet talks are nearly concluded. After a series of meetings in Washington last week with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin said that an accord was "closer, ever closer, very close." Administration officials were quick to add that the remaining differences could take some time to resolve. The President, for one, was taking no bets on when the talks would end. Said he at a press conference: "After many mistakes, I have promised the public that I would not predict...
...coming weeks could be critical for the arms talks. A Cabinet-level special committee met last week to decide on final moves in what has been called SALT'S end game. Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin have been meeting intensively to reach agreement on the final tradeoffs, and the two sides' delegations have been working overtime in Geneva. Carter is scheduled to offer a defense of SALT in a speech at Georgia Tech this week. Within "the next few weeks he hopes to announce a treaty signing and a Brezhnev summit by April...
...State Department pinned the blame for the reckless decision to attack on the two Soviets, and summoned Moscow's Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin to protest the Soviet role "in the strongest terms." In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon delivered an equally forceful remonstration to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But Moscow disclaimed "any responsibility," and from Kabul, TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin reported a widespread impression that the attack decision had been made by the Afghans, not the Russians...