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With the light in his eyes, Vance spars with Gromyko on SALT...
...This is not Secretary Vance's first visit to Moscow," said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, raising his crystal goblet of champagne on high. "But it would be close to the truth to say that the responsibility on him and on the Soviet side is far greater than in the past. There is no need to draw the conclusion which we all understand...
Laughter rippled down the banquet table at a government guesthouse in Lenin Hills on the outskirts of Moscow last week following Gromyko's circumlocutory sally. Every one of the 75 Soviet and American officials present-especially Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance-understood all too well the reference to Vance's disastrous March 1977 visit, which marked a major setback for the new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) and for Soviet-American relations in general. Vance was now back, 13 months later, intending to avoid a repeat performance. As Vance told Gromyko...
...because of "differences with his government." Shevchenko was by far the most important Soviet diplomat to have defected to the West, and the news caused consternation at the U.N., intense alarm in Moscow, and scarcely concealed elation in Washington. A protégé of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and Moscow's top-ranking official on the U.N. staff, Shevchenko was privy to many of his country's secrets, including the inner workings of Kremlin foreign policy making. Moreover, as a disarmament specialist serving as Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's principal assistant in the Department...
...overwhelming yearning for freedom. Moreover, the move seemingly cut short a brilliant career. First posted to the U.N. in 1963 as a counselor in the Soviet Mission, Shevchenko served in New York for seven years. The Ukrainian-born diplomat then returned to Moscow as an adviser to Foreign Minister Gromyko and reached ambassadorial rank at the unusually early age of 40. In 1973 he was sent back to the U.N. to fill the cushy Under Secretary's post...