Word: gromyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed a year ago this week may die on the Senate shelf. After more than a month in office, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has yet to meet with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Muskie did meet on May 16 with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Vienna, but their exchange consisted largely of reviewing mutual recriminations. Each side has a long list of charges against the other...
...also, of course, one of the most experienced. At a time when Jimmy Carter was a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy (1943-46), virtually every man in the 14-man Politburo was a member of the power elite. Brezhnev was a major general. Andrei Gromyko was Ambassador to the U.S. Today, however, none of these tough, hard-working old leaders is exceptionally robust. Brezhnev, at 73, suffers from several illnesses, including arteriosclerosis. Alexei Kosygin, 76, has had two heart attacks. Dmitri Ustinov, 71, is currently ailing. "When Brezhnev dies the rest of the Politburo will be gone with...
Elsewhere the Soviets have been subtler. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited France this spring in the midst of the boycott debate there; he pointedly told journalists that important trade-contract discussions were under way that could prove extremely profitable to the French. Although the Philippines had already been promised Moscow's free Olympic travel package if it decided to attend, the Soviets sent word later that large-scale purchases of Philippine coconut products were under consideration. No link was made to Olympic politics, but then none was needed. The message arrived only a few days before a meeting...
...Muskie-Gromyko encounter thus yielded few clues about the course that the superpower relationship might take. What the meeting did show is two things: 1) the Carter Administration's determination to deal sternly with Moscow so long as Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan and 2) Muskie's readiness to be a blunt spokesman for this position. In his address at the Austrian celebrations, with Gromyko sitting just a few feet from him, Muskie clearly alluded to the Afghanistan invasion as he said that "the principles of neutrality, of independence and territorial integrity so respected in the case...
...Gromyko's speech, in contrast, blamed current world tensions on the West and proclaimed that the "Soviet Union is a supporter of detente." These sentiments summed up Moscow's new "peace offensive," which is apparently designed to repair the damage done to its reputation by the invasion of Afghanistan. The scope of the new offensive was outlined in Warsaw at a high-powered gathering of Brezhnev and the heads of the other Warsaw Pact states...