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...comparison, says Hyland, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is a "clever tactician with great aplomb" who can change positions in mid-sentence with no explanation...
...objected to FBI tactics in the past, was particularly displeased by the timing of the Lusis case. Soviet-American relations were deteriorating dangerously. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his advisers were regrouping after their disastrous week in Moscow in March and preparing to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva in May. The U.S.S.R. desk at State argued strenuously that the FBI'S proposed blackmail attempt threatened to jeopardize Soviet-American relations at the worst possible time. The CIA supported State, noting it had nothing in its files to indicate Lusis was a KGB "heavy." But, exercising...
...Administration launched its renewed peace drive when Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko issued a 700-word joint declaration that brought Moscow back into the Middle East peace picture. The unique declaration called for a comprehensive Middle East settlement, to include Israel's withdrawal from occupied territory, termination of a state of war, and the "resolution of the Palestinian question." The U.S. thus agreed formally that the Palestinians had "legitimate rights" in any settlement...
Vance and Gromyko made some progress during their May meeting in Geneva, but the Russian still blasted Washington for seeking "unilateral advantages" from SALT, and the Soviet press denounced the Pentagon for attempting "to stir up a new round in the arms race...
...down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon as a conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made compromises, Moscow seemed to bend the most. The U.S. had already dribbled out many of its concessions during the past nine months...