Word: gromyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above all, Gromyko is recognized as an indestructible practitioner of Realpolitik. Says a West German diplomat: "He knows the long-term objectives of Soviet policy as no other human, and he sees things in that light...
...Gromyko told visiting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last month that arms-control talks with the U.S. could not resume unless the U.S. removed its missiles from Germany and Britain...
...Soviet forces while accepting only marginal restrictions on future U.S. programs. Administration officials admitted that their position was "front-loaded" with measures that would squeeze the Soviets in the short run, but they claimed that the long-term effect would be true equality and greater stability. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet spokesmen were contemptuous in dismissing what they called a "cynical American trick." They complained that the "essence" of the U.S. policy was to re-establish American superiority...
...press conference in New York City, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko rejected the proposal for a low ceiling on launchers and ballistic-missile warheads that Reagan had announced at Eureka College in May. When the arms talks began in Geneva in late June, Krasnoslav Osadchiyev, who represented the Council of Ministers on the Soviet negotiating team, said that the weapons the U.S. was trying to reduce-Soviet MIRVed ICBMs-were "the absolute mainstays of our defense...
...Gromyko told visiting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last month that arms-control talks with the U.S. could not resume unless the U.S. removed its missiles from Germany and Britain...