Word: gromyko
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Muskie goes to meet Gromyko and finds Moscow urging a new summit...
...Sort of a diplomatic minuet" was Edmund Muskie's prediction about his first encounter as Secretary of State with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But by the time the two finally met last week, the drum beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into a virtual symphony. NATO was convening in Brussels while the Warsaw Pact was gathering in Warsaw; Naples played host to a meeting of European Community foreign ministers, and Islamabad welcomed officials from the Islamic Conference states. Austria was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the end of postwar occupation, a glittering...
Concern about East-West ties was also the reason for worldwide interest in the Muskie-Gromyko meeting in Vienna, the first Cabinet-level talks between Washington and Moscow since the Afghanistan invasion last December. Accompanied only by their interpreters, the two ministers talked for three hours-an hour longer than planned-in an elegant marble room inside the former Habsburg imperial palace. After the session Muskie looked distinctly somber as he re-emerged into the klieg lights and said only that "the discussion fully justified my belief that it was necessary." As for the prospects of future talks, Muskie observed...
This week's meeting probably would not have been scheduled at all had Cyrus Vance not resigned as Secretary of State. So long as he was to represent the U.S. at the Austrian festivities, the White House was unsure about whether he should see Gromyko. Vance felt he should, but presidential advisers argued that the Soviets, not the Americans, ought to make the initial gesture to resume high-level contacts. It was Moscow's aggression in Afghanistan, after all, that had ruptured U.S.-Soviet ties in the first place...
...State Department's top Soviet experts. During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the confirmation hearings for his new post, he said: "I would expect each side to undertake to lay out its perception of each other's policies." Thus it was anticipated that Gromyko will claim, as Moscow does in public, that it sent a "limited Soviet military contingent" into Afghanistan in response to an appeal from the Kabul regime...