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...linking himself to the foreign policy of Gromyko." That dependence could weaken as Gorbachev gains greater experience in world affairs, but for the moment Gromyko is viewed not only as the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but also as its chief architect. One result, says Soviet Expert Dimitri Simes from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Gromyko is going to be a major power broker...
...Soviet leadership had come close to using nuclear arms on China. He had been at the Politburo discussion. He said that Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister, actively advocated a plan "once and for all to get rid of the Chinese threat." Grechko, a dim-witted martinet replaced by Dimitri Ustinov in 1976, called for unrestricted use of the multimegaton bomb known in the West as the "blockbuster." The bomb would release enormous amounts of radioactive fallout, not only killing millions of Chinese but threatening Soviet citizens in the Far East and people in other countries bordering China...
...point on, the movie veers dangerously near the plot of Romancing the Stone. She meets the son of the author of the Rebecca Ryan novels, Adam McMann (Tom Conti). He thinks she's a put-on or a practical joke. She thinks he is her fictional right-hand man Dimitri. Doubts begin springing up in McMann's mind after he and Ryan/Palmer are sniped at few times by an unknown assassin. The imitation pulp heroine thinks it's all part of a plot involving a prominent French politician (Giancarlo Grannini), who would just as soon have nothing to do with...
Some club members said they devote much of their time to medieval activities. One Tufts student, who uses the name Dimitri Mikhiliovtich in his medieval activities, spent 60 hours making a small sheet of chain mail, a kind of armor protection...
...Warned Dimitri Simes, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "We overestimated Andropov. The danger now is to underestimate Chernenko...