Word: gromyko
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...read like a fever chart. At the outset, he branded the Soviets as a band of liars and cheats. But in January 1982, one month after martial law was declared in Poland, he dispatched then Secretary of State Alexander Haig to Geneva to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. After Haig left office, Reagan continued his anti-Soviet rhetoric, going so far as to denounce the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in his "Darth Vader speech" last March. But even while lambasting the Soviets in public, Reagan made the unusual gesture of receiving Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin...
...Soviet insistence on maintaining a balance of Soviet INF against British French INF is to pose a distinct nuclear threat to West Germany outside the Soviet-American balance of both INF weapons and strategic nuclear forces. In his press conference of early April, 1983 Soviet foreign minister Gromyko justified such a separate Soviet INF-British French INF balance in purely nuclear terms...
...Imagine," suggested Gromyko, "that a terrible tragedy has occurred and that say, a nuclear-armed British missile is in flight. Should it carry a tag. 'I am British'? Or imagine," Gromyko continued, "a French missile flying Perhaps it will also carry a tag saying. 'I am French, I should not have been included in the count...
...sure, Gromyko pointed out two other major obstacles to the conclusion of a Soviet-American INF agreement. One is that the United States refuses to place on the negotiating table its forward based aircraft in Europe some 723 planes by Soviet count. The other is the Soviet refusal to include in the Geneva negotiations the SS 20 missiles deployed in the Far East in range of China. Japan and South Korea. The United States has argued that these mobile missiles about 100 by the American count could be moved with in striking distance of Europe...
...major impediment to teaching a Soviet American INF agreement is counting British and French missiles Despite Gromyko's explanation, the real issue is not affixing tags to NATO missiles which read "I am British" or "I am French." The real issue is affixing tags to Soviet SS-20s which read. "I'm headed for Germany...