Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Behind the dizzying series of different proposals, some observers-especially in West Germany-detected a growing disarray in the West's alliance. In Bonn there was muttering about a tack of U.S. leadership, complaints that the wearily continuing talks between U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Russia's Andrei Gromyko in Moscow were doing a lot of harm; to a political meeting, Adenauer cracked that Thompson should not make a career of negotiating with the Russians. The Belgians were still grumbling about the lack of their allies' support in the Congo. Portugal made ugly noises about the absence...
Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov kept pleading, with anyone who would listen, for separate negotiations between Russia and West Germany. Breaking precedent, Smirnov even showed up at a U.S. newsman's cocktail party in Bonn to buttonhole guests with his persistent questions: "Why are you afraid to let the West Germans talk...
Khrushchev's Turn. Had anything really changed? Berlin was still there; in the third of a series of meetings in Moscow to probe Soviet intentions about Berlin. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson found Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as unbending as ever. Laos and South Viet Nam were still very much there. In Geneva, mired down by Russian refusal to merge test-ban talks with general disarmament discussions-a reversal of Moscow's previous position-the nuclear test-ban talks were broken off last week after three long and frustrating years. The Russians tested another nuclear device (underground), while...
Silhouetted against the Soviet embassy's big picture window overlooking the Rhine, Ambassador Andrei Smirnov wore a thoughtful look as he toyed with his vodka glass. Before him sat his West German guests-editors, members of the Bundestag, an official from the government press office. Moscow's new policy, pleaded Smirnov, is not meant as "bait," or as "mere propaganda." The "highest personality in the Soviet Union" (Nikita Khrushchev) is behind this idea: the Soviet Union and West Germany must "normalize" their relations. Russia is no longer disposed to deal only with the U.S., Britain and France...
...surface relaxation did not mean that East and West had come any closer together on Berlin basics. It now was clear that the second conversation between U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko two weeks ago had produced no progress at all. Gromyko flatly refused even to discuss the future of East Berlin, would only talk about changing West Berlin's status. He was not at all interested in internationalizing the Autobahn through East Germany from Berlin to the West ("Would the British like to see the highway from London to Dover internationalized?" asked an East...