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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'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...
...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...