Word: chervonenko
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Like other Western newsmen, French broadcasters have given prominent coverage to the Italian government's charges. In response, an aide to Soviet Ambassador to France Stepan Chervonenko sent a letter to all major French news organizations demanding "fair" treatment of the U.S.S.R. and accusing the French of making "our country the object of the most shameless defamation." The French press wasted no time in responding. Replied the conservative Paris daily Le Quotidien: "One can easily imagine the scandal that would ensue if a U.S. ambassador in France dared to send an insulting letter to all the newspapers, radio...
...however, it has been mostly stick and very little carrot. Gromyko's tough stance in his private talks was preceded by a harsh public speech in Paris by the Soviet Ambassador to France, Stepan Chervonenko. In justifying Moscow's action in Afghanistan, first of all, Chervonenko seemed to extend the common interpretation of the Brezhnev Doctrine-namely, the Soviets' right to intervene in Eastern Europe-to a pro-Soviet regime anywhere. A friendly country, Chervonenko argued, "has the full right to choose its allies and, if it becomes necessary, to be helped in repelling the threat...
Even more assertively, Chervonenko reiterated Moscow's forceful demand that, as a full-fledged superpower, the U.S.S.R. should have the same right as the U.S. to involve itself in any issue anywhere in the world. For example, he said, the U.S. cannot expect to lay claim to the Persian Gulf as an exclusive area of "vital interest" without being challenged. Concluded Chervonenko: "The U.S. is engaged in unrealizable efforts to stop history and to recover lost supremacy...
...week went on, Moscow wasted little time exploiting the growing tensions in the alliance. The Kremlin warned West Europeans not to bow to U.S. pressure in such matters as modernizing NATO's tactical nuclear arsenal and boycotting this summer's Moscow Olympic Games. In Paris, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko stated that unless the allies resist, they would be turned into "an instrument for America's global policy" and would allow the U.S. to "attain strategic objectives on the backs of others." When Bonn indicated that it would probably follow the U.S. lead and boycott the Olympics, the Soviet Ambassador...
...both France and West Germany, the Soviets offered a carrot along with the stick. Chervonenko warmly characterized Franco-Soviet relations as a "preferential friendship," while Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week invited Helmut Schmidt to go to Moscow early this summer for a long delayed summit meeting. The invitation surprised Schmidt, who promptly phoned Carter, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and other Western leaders to discuss Bonn's response to an overture clearly intended by the Soviets to split the allies. In view of the already existing tensions in the alliance, a chancellery aide in Bonn...