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...Western press in Moscow, which they feel has not taken their peace initiatives seriously enough. The arrest of Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that the KGB staged the Lenin Hills charade without consulting the top political leadership. Most U.S. analysts were incredulous that such an important arrest could have been made without Gorbachev's knowledge. Says former CIA Director William Colby...
Although Nixon spoke with Ronald Reagan before he left the U.S., he was not carrying a message from the President. While in Moscow, he stayed in a government guesthouse and met with Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev, President Andrei Gromyko and Central Committee Secretary Anatoly Dobrynin...
...years the affable, English-speaking Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, had served as an invaluable back channel for quiet negotiations between the two superpowers. When Dobrynin was tapped in March for higher duties as a Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry. So it came as a shock last week when Moscow announced that its new envoy to Washington was Yuri V. Dubinin, 55, a West European specialist who speaks little English...
...seems certain that in the short run, at least, Dubinin will play a far smaller role in managing relations with the U.S. than did Dobrynin. Indeed, that may be precisely why he was chosen. Many observers see it as a bid by Dobrynin to keep the reins of U.S.-Soviet relations in his own hands back in Moscow. "It suggests that Dobrynin intends to remain in control of the American account," said one U.S. official, "because there would not be another indispensable Russian in Washington." Agrees Sovietologist Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Dobrynin did not want...
Nonetheless, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union seemed committed to proceeding toward a summit later this year. The Soviets continued to express disappointment over the lack of progress on central arms-control issues. But Dobrynin's messages last week, both literal and atmospheric, will make it difficult for Gorbachev to back out without considerable provocation. What remains to be seen is whether the Reagan Administration's policy of challenging the Soviets directly and in places like Libya and Nicaragua will force concessions or lead to another stalemate over the summit...