Word: gromyko
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...between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In a January speech, Reagan sounded a new--for him --conciliatory note. But the Soviet leadership, immobilized by the illness of Yuri Andropov, did not register the change. When Konstantin Chernenko first took over the Soviet leadership, he followed Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's hard line against the U.S. But in June the Soviets spoke of resuming arms talks in Vienna. Then Gromyko agreed to meet with Reagan in Washington, at the height of the presidential campaign. The Soviets can read public opinion polls, and realized that they would have to deal with...
...George Shultz and Andrei Gromyko can get past the initial hurdle in Geneva --agreeing about what their long-term talks should cover--one thing is certain: they will find themselves enmeshed in a nuclear numbers game of mind- numbing complexity...
...Geneva talks set for next Monday and Tuesday may raise unreasonable expectations. Shultz and Gromyko will not actually negotiate reductions in the vast nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers. Rather, they will try to decide what to negotiate about. That task will be difficult enough. Both sides have amassed such a varied array of arms--medium-range and long-range missiles, single and multiple warheads, land-based, sea-based and air-based weapons --that it is hard to know where and how to begin bargaining. Yet the choice of which weapons to lay on the table is critical...
...harsh rhetoric; the Soviets had to abandon their vow not to return to the negotiating table until the U.S. pulled its missiles out of Europe. Thus, it is no wonder that the world will be watching, and hoping, when Secretary of State George Shultz joins Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week to renew nuclear arms-control talks after a yearlong hiatus...
...charisma. Nonetheless, as a member of the dwindling but powerful old guard that had survived both Brezhnev and his successor, Yuri Andropov, he had become a more visible public presence early this year: in February, Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko shared the spotlight with Ustinov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at Andropov's funeral. Later, in the fall, Ustinov faded out of the picture. Soviet television viewers had fully expected to see him pass through Red Square to review the massed battalions on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in November, but he never appeared. According to the official medical...