Word: gromyko
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...Gromyko's warning about interference by Peking and Washington gave credence to the theory that one factor in the Kremlin's Afghan adventurism may well have been its longstanding paranoia about China and its fears of a new U.S.-China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training...
...Soviets have also launched a "peace offensive," aimed specifically at driving a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. Last week Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov called for a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact "conference on military detente and disarmament in Europe." If NATO's approval last December of a U.S. proposal to deploy new medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe could only be canceled, said the two Communist Foreign Ministers, then talks could begin on reducing a comparable Soviet missile force...
Moscow was also making its presence felt in the area. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew to Damascus to shore up relations with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who could use the Kremlin's help to cope with his troubles. Assad's nine-year-old regime, dominated by the minority Alawite sect, has been challenged for its repression and corruption by rightist Muslims; relations with neighboring Iraq have deteriorated, and Syria was the only major Arab state that stayed away from the Islamabad summit...
...Gromyko also conferred with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who remains bitterly disappointed that the U.S. will not negotiate with him and angry that Israel will not agree to creation of a Palestinian state. There have been few incidents lately of P.L.O. terrorism; some observers think this is because Arafat hopes to play a more constructive role in the Middle East and have the P.L.O. recognized by a grateful Washington. Arafat's organization has been recognized by some 110 nations, and its $1 million-a-day budget is increasingly backed by contributions from individual Arabs and wealthy Palestinians...
...Next Mrs. Gandhi met with Bangladesh's President Ziaur Rahman, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; this week Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and U.S. Special Envoy Clark Clifford are all to meet with Mrs. Gandhi. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is expected in February...