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That optimistic assessment stemmed from last week's visit to Washington by Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who has just completed 24 years of service as Moscow's man in the capital and who now takes on a job as a senior foreign policy adviser to Gorbachev. In his talks with Reagan and other Administration officials, Dobrynin continued to refrain from setting an actual date for a summit. But he did bring word that Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze was prepared to come to Washington for talks with Shultz on May 14 and 15 to lay the groundwork for a summit conference...
...preliminary answer should be forthcoming promptly. On Tuesday--possibly just as the U.S. nuclear test blast is going off--Anatoli Dobrynin, who is departing after 24 years as Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., is scheduled to call at the White House for a talk with Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz. U.S. officials hope Dobrynin, who is taking up a Kremlin post as a senior adviser to Gorbachev, will be carrying a message that could get private discussions going again after months of what diplomats brand "megaphone diplomacy." Indeed, Dobrynin reportedly has been empowered to set a date...
...advance of the Dobrynin visit, the betting in Washington was that Gorbachev would eventually agree to come to a second summit. To stay home, in this view, would hand Reagan a devastating propaganda advantage. In other words, Gorbachev needs a new summit more than Reagan does...
...Anatoli Dobrynin, 66, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, will join the Secretariat, probably as a foreign policy adviser. His 24 years of service in Washington have earned him a reputation as a tough but pragmatic U.S. adversary who could be both charming and deceptive (see box). His inclusion in the inner circle of power suggests that U.S.-Soviet relations have become Gorbachev's overriding foreign policy concern. The leading candidates to replace Dobrynin as Ambassador to Washington are Yuli Vorontsov, 56, the Kremlin's suave Ambassador to Paris, and two Deputy Foreign Ministers, Viktor Komplektov...
ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 62, Ambassador to Canada from 1973 to 1983, who most recently controlled the propaganda department, joined Dobrynin in the Secretariat. His elevation bolstered rumors that the entire propaganda machinery would fall under Yakovlev's purview...