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...Gromyko. After Haig left office, Reagan continued his anti-Soviet rhetoric, going so far as to denounce the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in his "Darth Vader speech" last March. But even while lambasting the Soviets in public, Reagan made the unusual gesture of receiving Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in his private White House quarters...
...keep the job of Foreign Minister. Indeed, informed Soviets suggested that the move upstairs would actually make him a "superminister," with much broader control over foreign policy decisions. But the shift could also be the first step toward bringing in a younger man. One potential successor is Anatoli Dobrynin, 63, who has been Ambassador to Washington since...
...public comments stopped well short of more serious threats that Soviet officials have made previously through diplomatic channels. Arbatov also noted that any change in Washington's attitude "will, of course, be noticed in Moscow." TIME has learned that President Reagan recently invited Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a private chat and assured the veteran diplomat that he is personally committed to peace. It was a tiny step in easing tensions...
...facsimile of the letter will appear in an advertisement in The Crimson on March 15, the sixth anniversary of Shcharansky's imprisonment on charges of spying for the CIA. Copies will be mailed both to Andropov and to Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Dobrynin...
...President would have been misread as an unwilling concession granted in fear at the expense of an ally. It seemed better to tell the Soviets the real position in private, and in a way that would prevent any such misunderstanding. Robert Kennedy made it plain to Ambassador Dobrynin that any attempt to treat the President's unilateral assurance as part of a deal would simply make that assurance inoperative...