Word: gromyko
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Even the Soviet Union, which has bankrolled Syria's arsenal, expressed alarm over the spreading violence. At a banquet honoring Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam in Moscow late last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said that "we consider as extremely urgent the need to overcome strife and restore unity in the ranks of the Palestinian movement." The message to Assad: ease up on Arafat...
...courtesy call. He was there to protest the renewal of mysterious microwave beam transmissions directed at the U.S. embassy. On other occasions, however, the 6-ft. 3-in. Hartman makes it his business to keep the lines of communication open with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other top officials. Hartman, who worked closely with Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, has provided his first on-the-record interview to an American correspondent in Moscow, TIME Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof. Excerpts...
...Chervov, a member of the Soviet general staff, publicly acknowledged what Western intelligence sources had long known: Soviet forces in Eastern Europe already are armed with short-range nuclear weapons capable of striking up to 70 miles. On the diplomatic front, after a visit by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to East Berlin, the Soviets and the East Germans warned that relations between the two Germanys would suffer "serious damage" once the NATO missiles were installed. Against this chill blast, Reagan sent the protesters a message that fell mainly on deaf ears. Said...
Last weekend Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew to Vienna to meet with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. There were reports that Gromyko asked Genscher to help arrange a summit between the superpowers to help avert a crisis over the missile deployment. The latest Soviet moves appeared to signal an increased willingness in Moscow to push its war of nerves with Washington over the missiles to the crisis point. Said a West European diplomat: "The Soviets are trying to scare the hell out of everyone...
What's more, the decision serves Soviet interests by giving Gromyko an excuse to get himself off the hook. Gromyko wanted nothing less than to be subjected to a barrage of criticism from the assembled delegates at the United Nations, especially after his hostile reception at the Madrid Conference a week earlier...