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Aside from notetakers and translators, only Nitze, McFarlane and U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman accompanied Shultz to the actual meetings; the Soviet side included Gromyko, Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin, First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko and Arms Negotiator Victor Karpov. From time to time one of the U.S. team, usually McFarlane, entered the bubble, where briefing papers often disappeared under salami sandwiches and coffee cups, to inform the rest of the delegation what was happening. At the end, two veteran Washington antagonists even indulged in some genial clowning before journalists at the Hotel Intercontinental. As Perle waited...
...Reagan decides to elaborate on the umbrella proposal, he can be certain that Anatoli Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., will be listening intently. During a reception last week marking the U.S. publication of a book by Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet-American Relations, the wily Dobrynin engaged U.S. reporters in some cheerful but newsworthy badinage. "You have introduced something new in the history of Soviet-American relations, the umbrella," he said. "What is it?" Then, referring to the British term for raincoat, he joked, "A mackintosh we can understand, but this must be studied...
...inability in Stockholm to sound out Gromyko on a possible fresh approach to START, and Moscow's scuttling of its own offer to discuss in Vienna the militarization of space. But Shultz was determined to keep his lines of communication open, primarily through Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin and the U.S. envoy to Moscow, Arthur Hartman. Finally, State Department officials hit upon the idea of getting Reagan and Gromyko together by reviving an old custom: extending an invitation to the Soviet Foreign Minister during his visit to the U.N. Reagan enthusiastically approved the plan. Says a senior State...
Konstantin U. Chernenko: What? Did Dobrynin finally defect...
...Just as Dobrynin measures Presidents, so do Presidents measure Moscow by him. He gets remote when Moscow gets remote. He grows silent when the Kremlin gets confused. He gets tough when the Politburo gets angry. Back during the 1973 Middle East war, he was as cold and hard as an iceberg while the Soviets seemed to be planning to intervene. Within a few hours after the U.S. went on military alert and threatened confrontation, he was laughing about the whole misunderstanding...