Word: gromyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to improve the atmosphere began Sunday, when Reagan flew to New York to play host that night at the annual American reception for delegates attending the U.N. General Assembly meeting, and to get a look at Gromyko five days before their White House talk. The Soviet Foreign Minister, showing a rare smile, was the ninth of more than 200 foreign dignitaries to file past the President at the head of the receiving line in the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reporters timed their handshake at a long 23 seconds. Gromyko reminded Reagan that they had greeted each other...
...historic assembly hall, it is clear there is not a great distance between us. Outside this room, while there will still be clear differences, there is every reason why we should do all that is possible to shorten that distance." These remarks prompted the only spontaneous applause from delegates. Gromyko, though, sat with the stolid lack of expression that has earned him the nickname Grim Grom...
...Soviet Foreign Minister appeared a bit less dour when he visited the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Wednesday morning for a private meeting with Secretary of State Shultz. The two posed amiably at a picture-taking session in Ambassador Kirkpatrick's office; Gromyko clicked softly to mimic the sound of camera lens shutters. The meeting was much shorter than the American side had expected, lasting just three hours. Neither side would disclose what was said, but American officials reported that the meeting represented "a good start...
That mood lasted not quite 24 hours - until Gromyko mounted the podium Thursday morning for his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. His face wrinkling at times into the expression of a man who has scented a peculiarly unpleasant odor, Gromyko for 75 minutes assailed the U.S. as the cause of all political tensions that have plagued the world since 1946. His speech, delivered in an icy monotone, was replete with outrageous assertions ("Provocative intrigues continue against sov ereign and nonaligned Afghanistan") and devoid of the slightest hint of a change in Moscow's position on any subject...
...With Gromyko, however, Mondale said he stressed that Reagan spoke for all Americans in negotiating with Moscow. After their 90-minute meeting at the Soviet Mission to the U.N., Mondale reported. "My plea to Mr. Gromyko was to look past tensions, rhetoric, previous positions, whatever complaints and grievances they had and give this [the negotiations] a chance ... I did what I could to create a hopeful atmosphere [and] I do believe that there is an opportunity... to make significant progress." But Mondale did not fully explain what Gromyko had said to justify that belief. He paraphrased Gromyko as complaining that...