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...countries after a frosty intermission of nearly three years. The Soviets, who have long hoped for better links with Peking, quickly responded. At Leonid Brezhnev's funeral last November, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went out of his way to give his Chinese counterpart, Huang Hua, a cordial welcome. After a 90-min. meeting, both sides declared that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good neighborliness." Although Huang was replaced as Foreign Minister after his return from Moscow...
Nakasone summed up his current attitude toward the U.S. for TIME last week. Said he: "The most important thing is to have close and human relations between the two leaders of our countries." On mutual defense matters Nakasone was even more cordial. The U.S., he said, "is the lance, and the role of Japan is the role of the shield. The U.S. and Japan must complement each other in defense...
Meanwhile O'Brien and officials in Washington stew over the harm the disputes have on the higher education-federal relation. The audit problem has "probably been the leading cause of damaging what was heretofore a fairly cordial relationship," Goldberg flatly states...
There were also some strangely discordant notes in Moscow. Just one day after Andropov held his cordial get-together with Bush and Shultz, Georgi Korniyenko, first Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, blasted the Reagan Administration at a lunch in honor of 234 U.S. businessmen who had come to Moscow to discuss East-West trade. Speaking in English and without notes, he launched into a 90-minute attack on the Administration that seemed to reflect all the grievances of the Kremlin over the past three years. Korniyenko lambasted Washington's trade sanctions and its policy toward Eastern Europe, but reserved...
Though Zia and Gandhi carefully steered clear of such thorny topics as the India-Pakistan territorial dispute over Kashmir and the Soviet invasion of nearby Afghanistan, both leaders seemed politely pleased with the talks. Gandhi called them "cordial." Zia pronounced them "excellent." Not exactly torrid reviews. But given the decades of cold enmity between the two countries, any hint of warmth is historic...