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Hopeful Sign. Administration aides readily concede that the proposal was merely a trial balloon. There was at least one hopeful sign. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, following Kissinger to the U.N. podium, delivered a speech so ambiguous that it left listeners puzzling over just what Moscow felt about the Secretary's Middle East aims. Pressed by newsmen on that point later, Gromyko responded with some positive-sounding negatives: "I would not say that we do not agree on everything...
During the long, U.S.-orchestrated negotiations that led to the new Sinai agreement between Israel and Egypt, the Soviet Union became, more and more conspicuously, the odd man out in Middle East diplomacy. Now Moscow wants back in. This was the most important message conveyed by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week when he stopped off in Washington for two days of talks with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while enroute to the U.N. General Assembly. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter assesses the Soviet Foreign Minister's Washington visit...
Reaction to the agreement throughout the world was less than euphoric. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is co-chairman with Kissinger of the Geneva Peace Conference. Obviously angered and frustrated that they could contribute nothing to the new Sinai accord, the Russians refused to attend the signing of the articles−thereby forcing the U.S. to stay away as well. The Soviet press, which until last week had scarcely noticed Kissinger's shuttle, denounced the new agreement as "potentially dangerous" and "neglectful" of Arab needs. Understandably, the accord was bitterly attacked by Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation...
Ever since the Kremlin exiled Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the West 17 months ago, Russia's leading resident political dissenter has been Andrei Sakharov. A world-renowned nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s hydrogen bomb, Sakharov, during the past decade, has emerged as a leader of the human rights movement within the Soviet Union...
...convinced that the defense of Soviet dissenters-like my good friends Andrei Tverdokhlebov and Sergei Kovalyov-* is not only a moral duty for honest people around the world but is also a direct defense of human rights in their own nations...