Word: gromyko
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This is also Gromyko's philosophy. But it is quite possible that he is even more distressed than his colleagues, as he views the best achievements of his life's work crumbling. Still, it is likely that, barring illness or accident, Gromyko will be around for some time. And I would not be surprised to see him, like the persistent bulldog he is and at the proper time, again try to restore Soviet-American detente, even if he must do it--in one of his own favorite phrases--"brick by brick...
Despite Shevchenko's distaste for the system he left behind, he maintains a high degree of respect for his erstwhile mentor, Gromyko, the book's dominant figure...
During the deep chill between Moscow and Washington over the past several years, many American specialists on Soviet affairs speculated that Gromyko had become the No. 1 hard-liner in the Kremlin and, as such, the principal obstacle to an improvement in relations. Nonsense, says Shevchenko. He is convinced that Gromyko is committed to the restoration of detente--a policy that Shevchenko, too, favors. Thus, paradoxically, Shevchenko's book is not just a denunciation of the Soviet leadership. It is also a grudging defense of one of that leadership's most powerful and conspicuous members...
After graduation, I went on to do graduate work in disarmament. My study of this issue led to my first meeting with Andrei Gromyko, then First Deputy Foreign Minister. Gromyko's son and my fellow student, Anatoly, proposed in 1955 that we write a joint article on the role of parliaments in the struggle for peace and disarmament. Anatoly suggested we show the article to his father. He received us cordially at his apartment, a spacious set of rooms in one of the central Moscow buildings reserved for high government and party officials. His intent brown eyes, his whole appearance...
...conversation that followed, Gromyko impressed me with the warmth of his remarks about the wartime Soviet-American alliance against Hitler's Germany. His favorite foreign films are those made in the U.S. during the war and postwar years when he lived in Washington and New York as a young diplomat. He remembers the actors' names and gives running commentaries on their performances and backgrounds. It is almost as though the Soviet- American alliance was the high point of his life, the idyl he seeks to recapture through his dealings with Americans. When Gromyko critiqued our article, the iciest days...