Word: gromyko
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...Andrei Gromyko first appeared on the cover of TIME in 1947, when he was Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister. He was featured most recently last June, when the magazine reported that his influence in the Kremlin had reached an unprecedented level. Gromyko's arrival in the U.S. to meet with President Reagan and Democratic Candidate Mondale this week gave TIME'S editors a valuable opportunity to assess the state of the superpower relationship and its impact on the domestic political scene...
Associate Editor William Doerner, who wrote the cover story, has visited the Soviet Union twice, in 1969 and 1979. He has devoted eight of his 17 years at TIME, including a two-year stint in Paris, to writing and editing on foreign affairs. "What struck me vividly about Gromyko's visit," says Doerner, "is that just about this time last year I was writing about the destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, as a result of which the Soviet Foreign Minister was barred from landing at the New York area's civilian airports. Now there...
...other side of the world, attitudes about the Gromyko-Reagan meeting were less upbeat. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof was startled by a question put to him as he went about his reporting last week. "A middle-aged Muscovite asked me if it was true that Reagan 'is like Hitler.' When I told her that this image was completely erroneous, she replied, 'But that is what our television commentators tell us.' " For the cover image, Photographer Brian Alpert took a rare picture of Gromyko inside the Soviet mission in New York City, a building that...
...silvery Aeroflot 11-62M rolled up to a remote corner of New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport last week, its Cyrillic letters designating it an aircraft of the Soviet Union. Out stepped the dour and durable figure of Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, for 27 years the Soviet Union's top diplomat, who was arriving in New York to attend the 39th annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Gromyko and his entourage of about 30 began walking toward an eleven-car motorcade lined up on the tarmac. Then, spotting a band...
...Gromyko's arrival, though it had the trappings of diplomatic ritual, was anything but routine. A little more than a year ago, in the midst of the worldwide outrage over the Soviet Union's shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the Governors of New York and New Jersey ordered the Port Authority to deny landing rights to Gromyko's jetliner at any of its airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow...