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...years Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin ambled through the streets of Washington like a Russian bear who resembled your Uncle Ralph. There has never been anything quite like him in capital diplomacy. He survived Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. Sighs Soviet Expert William Hyland: "That's a major achievement in itself...
...United Nations 40th anniversary session in New York this September would provide the backdrop for an informal meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But last week Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corp.. revealed in Moscow that he had been told by Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, that Gorbachev would not attend the U.N. session. The decision was later confirmed by a U.S. official in Moscow...
...some degree, the Soviets have been giving mixed signals on the subject. Even as the border situation grew more threatening last week, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin offered to work with the U.S. to resolve regional conflicts, including Afghanistan. Said he: "We don't believe there is no solution to Afghanistan." The trouble is that Moscow would define the problem as "continued intervention from Pakistan." But once that matter is solved, "the problem is solved," Dobrynin contended, and the Soviets could then "take our troops home...
...newspapers." A few peace groups took heart from Gorbachev's message, but even some of them seemed disappointed. Said Pierre Galand, head of a Belgian organization opposed to nuclear weapons: "The moratorium is fairly weak. We had the right to expect something more." That something more might be what Dobrynin hinted at in Atlanta: Soviet reductions in Euromissiles in exchange for U.S. concessions on Star Wars...
...Saturday, as Nicholson was being buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin met for more than an hour with Secretary George Shultz at the State Department in what Dobrynin called an effort "to put this episode behind us." The two agreed that the commander in chief of the Soviet forces in East Germany and the commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe will meet to decide how such violent incidents can be avoided in the future. Said a senior U.S. official: "We think the Soviet response is something we can build...