Word: gromyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders of the United States. It was also meant to cast Mondale as the more reasonable, moderate half of the Presidential candidate duo, as a practical statesman aware of the urgency of superpower communications. At a brief and formal meeting with the President earlier in the week, by contrast, Gromyko was careful to maintain an expression of utter solemnity...
...exactly Mondale's maintenance of a hard-line stance during the last week that prevented his early meeting with Gromyko from generating any harmful backlash. The Democratic candidate handled the sensitive situation with a deftness and caution which bespoke his past experience as a behind-the-scenes negotiator. He kept quiet about precisely what was said in his discussion with the Soviet Foreign Minister. He also carefully avoided jumping into actual negotiations himself, advising Gromyko in no uncertain terms to go back to the bargaining table with the Reagan Administration and upholding the President's supreme jurisdiction over national security...
...however slim the chances for progress in negotiations between the superpowers may be in the near future, one comforting conclusion can be drawn from the historic Mondale-Gromyko meeting Thursday. Both participants approached the table with a soberness and professionalism befitting the major problems their countries must face--a welcome change from the bluster and ideological posturing that has emanated from both the White House and the Kremlin in the last few years...
...JUST WHAT was Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko trying to tell us when he wore grey flannel to his session with President Reagan? Was that a sign that the Soviets were willing to accept drastic reductions in vodka stockpiles--only, of course, in return for equivalent cuts in U.S. Gold Medalists? Had he been able to convince President Reagan to countenance competing assymetries--that is to acknowledge that the Soviet lead in vodka did not amount to first-strike capability, but was instead neatly balanced off by, at least this year, American Olympic athletes...
...after all, and the Russians world opinion to placate. Only in an Administration which pushes for high-level meeting in its fourth year, which signs no arms-control agreement, and which deep-sixes no arms-control agreements, and which deep-sixes any movement towards arms control, can the Gromyko-Reagan rumba be deemed of significance...