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American officials first sought the release of Soviet Dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Andrei Sakharov. When Moscow said no, the U.S. went instead for numbers. The deal was finally closed last month when President Reagan was in West Germany for the economic summit. The 19 East Germans and six Poles involved were mainly low-level spies employed by U.S. intelligence agencies...
...diplomats were closeted in a stuffy room in Vienna's Soviet embassy for six hours, twice as long as scheduled. In painstaking detail, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko reiterated their stands on issues ranging from arms control to human rights. The latest Shultz-Gromyko exchange, the first since Mikhail Gorbachev assumed leadership of the Soviet Union in March, ended with no softening of opposing positions and no date or place set for the proposed Reagan-Gorbachev summit. Said a U.S. official who attended the meeting: "It was two stone walls confronting each other...
...Army Major Arthur Nicholson Jr. and reminded Gromyko of "how these incidents blow our relationship off course." Although the Soviets seemed to acknowledge Shultz's lecture on the Nicholson killings, Gromyko turned icy when the Secretary of State chastised him for Moscow's treatment of dissidents like Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who, along with his wife Yelena Bonner, has been exiled to the isolated city of Gorky. Soviet sources indicate that Sakharov went on a five-day hunger strike last month that ended when he was taken to a hospital and was force...
...long-distance dialogue took on added significance because of the scheduled meeting in Vienna this week between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Shultz said that the issues raised in Reagan's speech--arms reduction, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and "confidence-building" measures such as better communications between the U.S. and Soviet military chiefs--would serve as his agenda for the conference. The two officials are also expected to discuss the possibility of a Reagan- Gorbachev summit this fall. Said Shultz: "When the Soviet Union is ready for such discussions, they'll take place...
Reagan's evolution from hard-line Soviet baiter to softer-line summiteer dates to an Oval Office parley last fall with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Says a White House aide: "Reagan's notion of personal diplomacy took off from that meeting." He was nudged along by Wife Nancy, a believer in the irresistible magic of her husband's personality, and by master Image Maker Michael Deaver. Both felt deeply that Reagan's warmonger image...