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Meanwhile, there are no signs that any movement can be expected soon in stalled East-West relations. Administration officials hope that the U.N. General Assembly session that opens in September will provide the venue for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to talk with Shultz-and possibly with Reagan. In the aftermath of the KAL 007 crisis, Gromyko was refused entry last year to international airports in New York and New Jersey, and he decided to cancel his annual U.N. appearance. The veteran diplomat has been included on this session's roster of speakers, but there is no official word...
...another diversion from more pressing matters, the Senate prepared to debate a meddlesome measure introduced by New York Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato that would rename the site of the Soviet embassy in Washington Andrei Sakharov Plaza. While attempts to keep pressure on the Soviets to free the ailing dissident from confinement are laudable, even the State Department saw this one as a dubious and ill-conceived political ploy. State Department Spokesman Joseph Reap said the measure, which seems to have broad congressional support, might violate international agreements on protecting the dignity of foreign missions, lead to Soviet retaliation...
...Soviets have been unrelentingly critical of West Germany in the aftermath of the deployment. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko coldly rebuffed West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's call for a return to arms talks during a meeting in Moscow last May. Since then the Soviet press has continued to vilify West Germany as the Third Reich reincarnate, publishing cartoons that depict members of the Kohl government with goose-stepping Nazi troopers...
Bonner said that the Sakharov case is still famous in Russia. "There is not a single person who does not know the name of Andrei Sakharov, whether or not they approve or disapprove of his actions...
...West has, in effect, allowed the Soviet Union to ignore their human rights obligations," stated Tatiana Yankelevich, step daughter of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov...