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...remote corner of New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport last week, its Cyrillic letters designating it an aircraft of the Soviet Union. Out stepped the dour and durable figure of Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, for 27 years the Soviet Union's top diplomat, who was arriving in New York to attend the 39th annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Gromyko and his entourage of about 30 began walking toward an eleven-car motorcade lined up on the tarmac. Then, spotting a band of reporters and photographers on hand for his touchdown, Gromyko...
...June the Soviets did an abrupt pirouette, proposing talks in Vienna on banning the militarization of space. Washington responded with a conditional answer that linked any new negotiations on space weapons to a resumption of the suspended nuclear arms talks, a move Moscow found unacceptable. Explained a senior Soviet diplomat: "It looked to us as though the Administration was interested in the spectacle of talks but not in doing serious business." The Soviet proposal, however, was hardly equitable: one precondition required the U.S. to agree to a moratorium on the testing of space weapons. This would have precluded the testing...
...enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious Muammar Gaddafi. Says a West European diplomat: "No matter what Hassan does, it seems to turn out all right...
Moldt released a statement later vaguely hinting that "many questions are still open." But the rest of the message effectively dampened speculation that the Honecker trip would be rescheduled any time soon. The East German diplomat expressed no regrets for the last-minute cancellation. Instead he blamed the West Germans, charging that "the style and public dispute about this visit in the Federal Republic have been extremely degrading and detrimental...
West Germans were eager to interpret every statement from East Berlin last week in the most positive light. Still, the Kohl government could not hide its disappointment at the turn of events. "The momentum from both sides seemed to be just right for the visit," said a Western diplomat. "Now a lot of air has been let out of the balloon." West German Negotiator Jenninger said he expected that "dialogue wanted by both sides" will continue. He challenged the East German explanation that "public dispute" over the trip in the West had forced Honecker to stay home...