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...rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly, immediately after an attack on the Camp David agreements, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suddenly fell silent, then leaned against the side of the speaker's desk. Two diplomats anxiously started forward, grasped Gromyko under the arms and helped him off the podium. For a time it seemed as though the 69-year-old veteran might be nearing the end of a career that has kept him at the head of the Soviet foreign ministry for an astonishing 22 years, but after a medical checkup and an hour's rest...
Nobody was more relieved than Jimmy Carter and his chief diplomatic aides, for they were preparing to welcome Gromyko to Washington over the weekend for what might prove to be an important new phase of the Carter Administration's 18-month preoccupation with SALT II negotiations. Gromyko is by now a matchless expert in the technicalities of strategic arms, and there is no real replacement for him on the Soviet side. "If his illness had been any worse," said one vastly relieved U.S. diplomat, "we could have kissed SALT goodbye for another six months...
...superstition that it is bad luck to shake hands on a threshold. That is one of the many small oddities of negotiating with the Russians. Although the world's attention is periodically focused on highly publicized encounters between Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko-the next one is expected to take place in New York City in September-the real labor of negotiating an arms-control agreement with the Soviet Union takes place at largely secret meetings in Geneva. There, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent, Strobe Talbott had a rare opportunity to observe the permanent SALT...
Throughout his pontificate a procession of world leaders visited the Vatican, including some key figures from Communist countries: Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, Rumania's President Nicolai Ceauşescu, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Of all the Pope's many diplomatic initiatives, including a long and fruitless attempt to mediate peace in VietNam and similarly frustrating efforts in Biafra, Northern Ireland and the Middle East, his Ostpolitik was the most successful. His overtures to the Communist world helped to win the church such concessions as limited freedom to teach, nominations...
News of Young's interview broke in Geneva just as Vance handed a message from Carter to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concerning Shcharansky. "Shit, shit, shit," screamed one ranking member of the Secretary's party when he learned what Young had said. "That stupid son of a bitch." As for the usually calm Vance, "what he said was unprintable," reported an aide. The Soviet news agency Tass promptly and predictably trumpeted Young's remark as "an official admission that political persecution is widespread in the United States...