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Instead, one diplomat after another took the podium to excoriate the Soviet destruction of Flight 007. Pierre Aubert of neutral Switzerland opened by taking oblique aim at the Soviets, saying that the most useful confidence-building measure would be "to persuade those who believe only in force, even in disrespect for human life, that they are in error." There was some doubt whether Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko would show up to face the heat. He not only showed up but droned through a standard speech about disarmament. His audience listened anxiously to hear whether Gromyko would mention the airliner...
...government when it appears." Enjoying the prerogatives of the elder statesman, former President Gerald Ford expressed the hope that Begin's successor would bring about "a bit more flexibility than has been exhibited by the Israeli government in the past." But even if Shamir's diplomatic experience makes him easier to deal with than the irascible Begin, U.S. officials do not expect him to be more flexible than his predecessors on the main area of dispute with the U.S.: the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the home of some 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs. Shamir...
Thus ended the strange saga of Andrei Berezhkov, the 16-year-old son of a Soviet diplomat, whose brief disappearance for a nocturnal spin in his family's car had escalated from a police-blotter item to a diplomatic showdown between the superpowers. The reason: though he returned home under his own power ten hours later, both President Reagan and the New York Times had that day received letters, purportedly from him, requesting asylum. Kept hidden away by the Soviets for more than a week while they and U.S. officials sparred over how to handle the matter, Andrei finally...
...Wednesday, Soviet diplomats threatened to move unilaterally. Charge Oleg Sokolov telephoned Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt to announce that he was scheduling a press conference that afternoon, after which Andrei would depart Washington. As a "big concession from Moscow," he added, Burt could attend. The U.S. diplomat replied that the plan was "totally unacceptable" and promised to denounce it in advance at the State Department's noon press briefing. Sokolov replied that he had already notified the U.S. press of his plans. "There was the potential for an ugly confrontation," recalled one U.S. official. "We were fully prepared...
...does not plan to. When his fiancee and her parents visit, he wants to pass Georges off as a retired diplomat, bring in his real mother, whom he has not seen for 20 years, and exile Albin for the night...