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...from the cold. On the first Monday in January, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Secretary of State George Shultz are to sit down together in Geneva and begin working out the basic ground rules and agenda for a whole new set of weapons talks. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "There are powerful interests on both sides in having these negotiations succeed...
...capacity as chairman of the foreign affairs commission of the Supreme Soviet, the U.S.S.R.'s largely ceremonial parliament. Last year he led another parliamentary delegation on a two-week tour of Canada, impressing his hosts with a lively intelligence and the ability to listen carefully. British diplomats were delighted with his latest travel plans. "If he really is the Kremlin's No. 2 man, we want to see as much of him as possible," explained a British diplomat. "And we want him to see as much of us as possible...
...Acting in concert with Washington, the British may use their time with Gorbachev to sound out the opening Soviet position in Geneva and to hint at "Washington's. "The Russians know perfectly well that anything they say to us will go straight back to Washington," said a British diplomat in London. "We will be acting as a two-way conduit...
...Administration sources, the resumption of ties will be effected next week, when Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meets in Washington with President Reagan. Washington officials believe Iraq's four-year war with Iran has been the incentive for Baghdad to move closer to the U.S. Says one U.S. diplomat: "They have now made it clear they can defend themselves by themselves, so this would be the proper moment to go ahead and reestablish ties with...
Sources within the anti-Soviet Afghan resistance movement say that the children will join an estimated 16,000 to 20,000 Afghan youngsters who have been forcibly sent to the Soviet Union over the past four years. One Western diplomat in Islamabad, Pakistan, says that the Soviets, faced with widespread opposition in Afghanistan, "may have concluded that nothing short of Sovietization inside the U.S.S.R. would make much of an ideological dent in Afghan youth...