Word: gromyko
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...force of 85,000 troops has propped up Afghanistan's Communist regime against a motley but tenacious resistance movement. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has become a chronic irritant in East-West relations: Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated U.S. outrage in his talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations a month ago, and the Afghanistan issue will probably be debated in the U.N. General Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped into rebel-held territory. TIME Diplomatic...
Indeed, Soviet diplomats, including Foreign Minister Gromyko, have indicated recently that the Kremlin is prepared to hold on in Afghanistan and wage a war of attrition against the insurgents as long as necessary to assure the survival of a pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. That could mean forever...
...counterthrust to Gromyko s speech, Haig issued a statement summarizing the contents of a note that Reagan had sent to Brezhnev the same day Though the President wrote that the U.S hoped to forge "a stable and constructive relationship" with the Soviet Union, he accused Moscow of seeking "military superiority" over the U.S. and using force in regional conflicts to win a "unilateral advantage." Said one aide: "We figured that no matter what Gromyko had to say it was worthwhile trying to get in the last word." -By James Kelly...
...part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs" in the hope of "shaking loose the socialist foundations of the Polish state...
...European officials doubted that the Soviets would risk the wrenching consequences of an invasion, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated Washington's strong opposition to such a move in his meeting with Gromyko last week. Still, the Soviets were firmly pressuring their Polish comrades to crack down on the troublesome union just as Solidarity delegates were preparing to assemble in Gdansk for the second round of their national convention...