Word: gromyko
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There was no leisurely breaking-in period for Edmund Muskie as the 58th U.S. Secretary of State. Just eight days after being sworn into office, the nation's newest diplomat was scheduled to meet with one of the world's most experienced: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who has dealt with (and irritated) every American Secretary of State since John Foster Dulles...
Muskie and Gromyko will both be in Vienna to participate in ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the treaty ending the postwar occupation of Austria. Though their meeting is expected to be little more than a polite chat, it has symbolic importance. Not since superpower relations were severely chilled by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has there been any high-level contact between Washington and Moscow. If their brief talks go well, the two men may agree to see each other again, perhaps as soon as next month, for more comprehensive discussions that just might reopen a substantive U.S.-Soviet...
...stage-managed one of the Administration's boldest strokes, the normalization of relations with China. That development came as a double blow to Vance: first, because he had been off in the Middle East while Brzezinski was sealing the deal with Peking; second, because when he met Andrei Gromyko in Geneva for what was supposed to be the final SALT session, the meeting produced yet another impasse, in part because of Soviet unhappiness over Sino-American normalization...
...saber rattling or missile rattling. It's to our mutual interest to reach an agreement on nuclear arms and to find a way to live on this planet together." Muskie may soon be talking to the Soviets; plans are being discussed for a meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Vienna...
Vance is confident that Ed Muskie will assert himself with, and over, Brzezinski, and that Muskie shares Vance's approach to U.S.-Soviet relations. The former Secretary is urging Muskie to keep the tentative date Vance had made to meet with Andrei Gromyko in Vienna this month...