Word: gromyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I heard the news for the first time, I failed to believe it." That was how Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in Paris on an official visit, reacted to word of the abortive American attempt to rescue the hostages in Tehran...
...Gromyko leads Moscow's tough-talking"peace offensive...
...first visit to a Western capital since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, even before the U.S. misadventure in Iran, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe...
...Gromyko was spearheading a new Soviet diplomatic offensive aimed at dividing the U.S. and its Western European allies. There were good reasons why Paris seemed to be the central target of the drive. For one thing, France has been the most independent, not to say reluctant, of the allies in lining up behind the U.S. on both Afghanistan and Iran. For another, Paris will be the site this week for a kind of pro-Soviet gala: a conference of European Communist parties designed to rally around Moscow's denunciation of NATO'S proposed new generation of nuclear missiles...
...however, it has been mostly stick and very little carrot. Gromyko's tough stance in his private talks was preceded by a harsh public speech in Paris by the Soviet Ambassador to France, Stepan Chervonenko. In justifying Moscow's action in Afghanistan, first of all, Chervonenko seemed to extend the common interpretation of the Brezhnev Doctrine-namely, the Soviets' right to intervene in Eastern Europe-to a pro-Soviet regime anywhere. A friendly country, Chervonenko argued, "has the full right to choose its allies and, if it becomes necessary, to be helped in repelling the threat...