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There have been many weeks when he spent more time with Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin than with his own wife. He has labored over the esoterica of SALT since the inception of those complex negotiations in 1969. He has logged more hours negotiating with Soviet leaders during the past decade than any other American...
...Hyland's experience, the most reasonable Soviet to deal with is Ambassador Dobrynin, the affable 16-year Washington veteran who unnerves some Administration officials because he neither takes notes nor relies on an interpreter in even the most delicate and detailed discussions. "You just hope he hasn't missed the nuances, but you're never really certain what he reports," says Hyland...
...that Moscow was prepared to agree to suspend "peaceful" nuclear tests as part of a total nuclear-test ban. And last week came other small signs that the tensions that had crept into U.S.-Soviet relations early in Carter's Administration were easing: in Washington, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told a TV interviewer that "we are rather close" to a new agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. When might the agreement be reached? Cautioning that it was impossible to predict "with precision" Dobrynin said he would guess "by the end of this year." The White House found Dobrynin...
During a busy three-day visit to Alaska, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin rubbed noses with an Eskimo, panned for gold on the beaches of Nome, donned a hard hat for a tour of the pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, and collected postcards at every stop. He also paused to reflect on how Secretary of State William Henry Seward had bought the territory for a mere $7.2 million from Czar Alexander II in 1867. In the U.S., Dobrynin noted, the deal "was known as Seward's Folly, but Alexander was known as foolish in my own country long...
...Henry Kissinger found very useful in concluding SALT I was reactivated. Thus, while U.S. and Soviet SALT delegations have been meeting regularly in Geneva to discuss secondary issues (like methods of verifying compliance with a treaty), exchanges on key points have taken place in Washington, with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin as the intermediary. (Some U.S. officials regard Dobrynin, who has been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders...