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What prompted Baker to move so strongly against the treaty were repeated rebuffs, from both the White House and the Kremlin, to any Senate suggestions for amendments. Early last week in Moscow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko took the unusual step of calling a press conference and declared that any changes in the treaty would be fatal. Said Gromyko: "It would be the end of negotiations. It would be impossible, whatever amendments might be added." Western diplomats were struck by the toughness of Gromyko's language, which underscored the position taken by Leonid Brezhnev at the Vienna summit...
...Gromyko's warning offended many Senators' sense of their constitutional role in the ratification of treaties. Baker called it "threatening." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater had a much stronger response. Said he: "Tell that Gromyko to go to hell...
...Kremlin is well aware of Byrd's key role in this fall's treaty debate and agreed to a private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's will only harden resistance to the treaty in the Senate. Brezhnev is likely to signal his understanding that it might be better to ease off until the Senate acts. But Western diplomats warned that if Byrd intends to lobby the Soviet leader for amendments that might make the treaty more acceptable...
Friday morning, Brezhnev flew into Vienna aboard a blue and white Ilyushin 11-62, accompanied by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, Chief of Staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov and Konstantin Chernenko, a Brezhnev protége who acts as the Politburo's executive officer. Resplendent in a blue suit studded with medals, including four Orders of Lenin, Brezhnev descended to the tarmac, gripping the handrail and stepping carefully but steadily. To a roll of drims, he warmly greeted Kirchschläger, walked with a slight limp by the honor guard and then was driven straight to his quarters...
Inside the U.S. Embassy's cramped and dreary conference room, the leaders arranged themselves and their aides at either side of a gleaming 25-ft. table. Brezhnev brought with him nine aides, including Chernenko, Gromyko, Ogarkov and Ustinov; Carter was accompanied by the same number, including Brown, Brzezinski and Vance. As guest, Brezhnev led off. He put on his rimless spectacles and stolidly read aloud from his sheaf of prepared remarks. He was followed by Carter, who talked from several pages of notes handwritten on yellow legal paper. Among them was a sentence he had noted on hearing Brezhnev utter...