Word: gromyko
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Arafat's problems came up in an unexpected venue when U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko held a detailed discussion on the Middle East with Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. Gromyko spoke with regret about Arafat's predicament; the P.L.O., he said, was gradually moving toward a more moderate position, with the balance shifting toward those who acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Much of the talk touched on the Soviet Union's quest to be directly involved in future Middle East negotiations. "Why do you Americans feel you have a right to play...
...Soviet success in that objective are just about nil, since NATO is standing firm in insisting that the Soviets are the ones who must change their INF posture. Nonetheless, at a meeting in Moscow last week with Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Väyrynen, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once again echoed the refrain that the aim of U.S. military policy is to "lord it over other countries," meaning the West Europeans...
Following the meeting with Gromyko, Väyrynen reported a Kremlin feeling that it cannot deal at all on arms matters with the present U.S. Administration. The depth of that feeling, however, is still open to question. As a senior Soviet official told TIME last week, "The situation is abnormal. We have to realize that Reagan may be in office for another five years and that this confrontation has gone far enough. We not only have to coexist with America, but coexist in a better atmosphere...
...pressure the Soviets into modifying their position. West Europeans, however, hope that U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz will attend a Jan. 17 meeting in Stockholm of the 35-nation Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. If Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko also shows up, the meeting could offer an opportunity to renew the superpower dialogue on European-based missiles...
While both men reserved the right to disavow the deal later, only one of them was operating completely on his own. That was Nitze. Kvitsinsky had been in contact with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko about their discussions on the eve of what later became famous as "the walk in the woods." At the end of the talk, Kvitsinsky said he was not sure he would find the Kremlin receptive to the package. He told Nitze he would let him know through a colleague at the Soviet embassy in Washington, one of Ambassador...