Word: gromyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with asking both countries to stop the fighting quickly. If they did not, the Soviets warned, the U.S. would take advantage. "While calling by word of mouth for neutrality in the Iranian-Iraqi conflict," the Soviet news agency TASS said after the New York meeting between Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, "Washington is in fact building up tensions and making a choice between direct interference in the Iranian-Iraqi conflict and the possibility of launching international intervention in case the war between Iran and Iraq jeopardizes oil exports from the Persian Gulf area...
...Administration was in no position to hand him back. One way out of the impasse seemed to be up to the Soviets: if they were to prove eager to clear the air for this week's meeting between Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, it was thought they might allow the hapless defector to go abroad-though not to the U.S. Otherwise, he was likely to remain in the embassy as an uninvited guest for the foreseeable future...
...asked that the meeting be treated as a "working visit," with a minimum of pomp. When a tense but determined Schmidt stepped down from his white and blue Luftwaffe jet at Moscow's Vnukovo II Airport, President Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on hand, along with a goose-stepping honor guard. Belying rumors about his ill health, Brezhnev strolled briskly across the Tarmac to greet Schmidt. The ceremony was clearly intended to convey the Kremlin's satisfaction that the Soviets were no longer considered in moral quarantine by the West...
Three Politburo members are excluded as contenders for supreme power because they are not ethnic Russians-an unacknowledged but key qualification for the job of party boss. They are: Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 62, Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 68, and Arvid Pelshe, 81. Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations. The youngest member of the Politburo, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 57, may be a contender for power in a few years. For the time being, however, he has no political base in Moscow; citizens...
...less trouble getting into a top school, landing a good job and winning advancement. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's elder son Yuri, for example, was named First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade last year at the relatively tender age of 47. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son Anatoli, 48, was appointed director of the African Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1976. Influence peddling-called blat in Russian-prevails at all levels of Soviet society, from the Kremlin down to the local butcher, who can set aside a choice cut of beef for a friend...