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...their word or are opportunistic. Even the everyday inflationary talk of politics bothers the earnest Glenn. He says that too much gets promised. When he sat listening to Walter Mondale tell a California convention of Democrats that if elected he would right now, today, get Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov on the hot line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies...
...more intriguing question was whether Reagan and Andropov might have their own summit. The Harriman visit and the State Department's response touched off speculation that such a meeting might occur. But U.S. officials cautioned that the Harriman-Andropov session was not all sweetness and light. Indeed, it started out on a decidedly tense note, with Andropov lambasting the Reagan Administration for its aggressive attitude toward Communism, its arms control policies and other areas of bilateral tension. But Andropov was friendlier in an exchange with Harriman about the Soviet translator. Said Harriman, who had met the translator with previous...
While at Williamsburg, Reagan reportedly authorized Kohl to raise the possibility of a U.S.-Soviet summit when he goes to Moscow next month. Some White House advisers believe a meeting with Andropov would help Reagan politically in 1984, since it would probably soften his cold warrior image. But others reportedly feel that it could backfire unless it yields progress on arms control. In the past, Reagan has said he would be willing to sit down with his Soviet counterpart only if there was a chance of producing substantive results...
Whether the Soviets are ready to bargain in good faith is the great unknown. Their warmer rhetoric may be nothing more than propaganda. But it is conceivable that Andropov is setting the stage for a more flexible negotiating position before the U.S. deploys its Pershing II and cruise missiles. "The signal they are sending is that they want to improve a bad relationship," commented a source at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. "But it doesn't mean they are willing to change their policies. We'll have to wait...
...became one of its new rulers. Elevated to the Politburo in 1966, Pelshe headed the Party Control Committee, which oversees the discipline of party members. His death reduces membership in the Politburo, which has numbered as many as 16, to a scant eleven, prompting speculation that Party Chief Yuri Andropov may soon make appointments...