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...case, Reagan, though now willing to moderate U.S. rhetoric, is a visceral anti-Soviet who hates to reverse course, and the increasingly influential Shultz (see box) is by temperament a cautious diplomat who likes to formulate policy only after a situation has been thoroughly analyzed, and it will take time to assess the new constellation of forces in the Kremlin. Says a Shultz aide: "Where is the U.S.S.R. going? The serious answer is that we don't know." In Shultz's mind, that justifies a wait-and-see attitude...
...cushions. The coffin was placed on a gun carriage drawn by an amphibious army scout car, the modern-day Soviet equivalent of the traditional horse-drawn caisson. Soldiers with fixed bayonets goose-stepped alongside the carriage as a military band played Chopin's Funeral March. Said a Western diplomat: "It seemed as much a military event as the Nov. 7 parade...
...issues, like Afghanistan; and the U.S. hope for progress in the two sets of nuclear-arms-limitations negotiations now under way in Geneva. But what mattered most for the Americans at this first meeting was to get a measure of the new leader in the Kremlin. Concluded a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The main impression Bush and Shultz had was of Andropov's great self-confidence and control. Andropov has been receiving one delegation after another as if he had been in office for months...
Retired Austrian Diplomat Walther Peinsipp became friendly with Andropov when both were serving as ambassadors in Budapest in 1956. The first time they met, the two immediately became embroiled in an ideological debate. At one point, Andropov turned to Peinsipp and said: "Look, I am a Communist. You represent the opposite world view, but that does not prevent us from understanding each other on a human level. Every person must have convictions, and people without convictions don't count. It would be beautifully simple if all the people in the world had the same convictions, but believe...
...Salvador is covering up the involvement of superior officers in the killings. Lawyers for the relatives informed the State Department last week that they would not participate in the trial. But U.S. officials insist that there simply is no evidence that high-ranking Guardsmen were involved. Says a U.S. diplomat in El Salvador: "The sad thing is that these families are being used by people not interested in justice but in political crusades, like cutting off all aid to El Salvador...