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...Dobrynin last week spelled out the Kremlin's current views in a series of three meetings: a 90-minute breakfast Monday with Shultz and National Security Adviser John Poindexter, a 75-minute session Tuesday in the Oval Office with the President and his top aides and a follow-up discussion with Shultz on Wednesday. Dobrynin described Soviet "confusion" over U.S. motives toward the Soviet Union, citing nuclear tests, Administration efforts to reduce the number of Soviet diplomats at the United Nations and U.S. maneuvers in the Black Sea. American officials, in turn, expressed "confusion" over such Soviet activities as supplying...
...Soviet appeal for "practical results," Dobrynin recalled his own extensive experience in summitry. The meeting of Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. in 1959, as well as the subsequent summit talks between Khrushchev and John Kennedy in Vienna, were "disastrous," said Dobrynin, because both sessions had been inadequately prepared. By contrast, he continued, the summit meetings during the '70s, involving Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, had been essentially successful because they were well planned and the outcomes known in advance. Thus, according to a senior U.S. official, considerable time last week "was spent on making sure...
...return to the "quiet diplomacy" that characterized the preparations for Geneva. That means an avoidance of provocative public statements that have become common in recent weeks and, instead, a reliance on communications through the Soviet embassy in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Until a replacement for Dobrynin is named, Shultz will deal with the Soviet charge d'affaires, Oleg Sokolov, an experienced diplomat who was also a key player at Geneva. After the Shevardnadze visit in mid-May, Shultz will probably return the call in Moscow by late June. These meetings, in the words of one senior...
...Dobrynin emphasized two long-standing Soviet concerns: nuclear testing and intermediate-range missiles. Both sides believe it is possible to reach some kind of interim agreement to reduce the Soviet and U.S. missile arsenals in Europe. On nuclear testing, however, the Reagan Administration is in no mood to compromise. Says Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger: "If we are to depend on the reliability of our nuclear stockpile, then we must test." Partly because of midterm congressional elections and partly because of the complexity of the subjects that need to be clarified before a meeting, a summit will probably not be held...
Shultz described the Dobrynin talks as "very substantive and constructive." His aides felt the Soviet visitor had taken the right steps toward restoring some of the momentum that has been lost since Geneva. On the other hand, U.S. officials regard the present diplomatic process as fragile. Apart from the question of whether progress on vital issues is really possible, there is the fact that the U.S. must decide shortly on whether to continue to abide by the restraints on nuclear arsenals imposed by the unratified SALT II agreement. A new Trident submarine, equipped with 24 ballistic missiles, is scheduled...