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...estimate, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, 64, has performed rites over the carcasses of 2,500 cold salmon sacrificed in the search for world brotherhood. The salmon were nibbled into oblivion, but Dobrynin goes on, a monument to cunning and a thoroughly disciplined alimentary canal...
...Reagan's dinner table. Then, in 48 hours, he was headed back to Moscow carrying his impression of the President and some private U.S. messages to his Soviet bosses, urging talks on the subjects of superpower tension. At the White House, during a dinner for the diplomatic corps, Dobrynin was served some of Bob Herdman's boneless strip sirloin barbecue, pinquito beans, salsa, marinated artichoke hearts and toasted, buttered sourdough bread. Dobrynin got an all-American message: good fellowship with peppers...
...through four Soviet chiefs and six U.S. Presidents. Reagan 'planned his barbecue for the capital's diplomats long ago. As so often happens in statecraft, the event was seized as a device through which Reagan might send a message of sincerity to the Kremlin. In a way, Dobrynin is being tested. Does he have any clout in Moscow now? Does he even know who is in charge there...
...days Dobrynin could sometimes get 24-hour turnaround messages straight from Leonid Brezhnev. He had a private phone line from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a special parking place in the State Department's basement. All that stopped with Reagan's Administration. Dobrynin now goes in the State Department's public entrance. And so cold are U.S.-Soviet relations that it matters less whether Dobrynin has the instant ear of the Politburo...
...Dobrynin broke in under John Kennedy. The Ambassador attended the famous meeting where Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko lied to J.F.K. about missiles in Cuba. Dobrynin survived because U.S. officials concluded he had not known about the missiles either. His sense of humor carried him through tough times. Eyeing a new Washington building with huge glass columns, he cracked: "Aha, that's where you are going to put your MX missiles." He jokes about being the man from the "evil empire." Dobrynin is, by one White House aide's account, the only Ambassador who "can talk, eat, laugh...