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...Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official, primarily to satisfy various East European constituencies that take note of such frequently hopeless exchanges. Said a U.S. diplomat: "We will have our say, and Gromyko will just have to listen." The specific U.S. objective that Shultz wanted to emphasize most strongly was Soviet agreement on further, regular meetings between the two sides at the ministerial level. These would cover a range of subjects, most important a continuing search...
Much depends on Gromyko's reaction to any new approaches suggested by Reagan. Longtime observers of the Soviet Foreign Minister have nicknamed him "Grim Grom" for his stony demeanor and negative responses to pleas for Soviet compromise. Says a U.S. diplomat: "He loves to put you on the defensive." At his last meeting with Gromyko, this past January in Stockholm, Shultz found his Soviet counterpart in such profoundly bearish spirits that he decided against bringing up an exploratory arms-talks proposal, which he had been authorized to present only after considerable infighting within the Administration. A display of Grim...
Even a moderately positive signal of Soviet willingness to explore new avenues of negotiation would boost the influence of arms-control moderates. Such a sign would not necessarily or even probably indicate a major turn-around in Soviet attitudes toward the U.S. Indeed, a Western diplomat in Moscow cautioned that "it is probably a mistake to build a universal field theory" around the outcome of this week's meeting, whatever it turns out to be. But an upbeat response would at least indicate that the Soviets have decided to abandon their present policy of icy silence. Said Assistant Secretary...
...invitation was passed through normal diplomatic channels in late August and was accepted within a few days. Apart from whatever internal Kremlin politics was involved in the decision to agree to the meeting, Western diplomats in Moscow speculate that the Soviets were in effect acknowledging their responsibility for a diplomatic misfire in proposing, then canceling, the offer of space-weapons talks in Vienna. "If they had really wanted negotiations, they didn't go about it in a way that would lead to negotiations," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "They really couldn't say no this time." Observes...
...appearance through a sophisticated film analyzer, frame by frame. Their conclusion: snippets were cut from the film to eliminate some of Chernenko's more obvious stumbles and trembling. Although an exact prognosis cannot be made from a piece of celluloid, it is clear, says a senior British diplomat, that Chernenko "does not look like a man with too long to go before incapacity or death removes him from the scene." The Soviet leader is known to suffer from emphysema and a heart condition...