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Tense Visit. Significantly, the Japanese made the announcement hours after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had concluded a tense official visit to Tokyo. During his stay, Gromyko had sternly warned the Japanese not to sign any peace treaty with Peking and certainly not one with an anti-hegemony clause in it. But the Japanese, for their part, were annoyed by Gromyko's refusal to return to Japan the four islands in the southern Kurile chain that the Soviets had seized at the end of the war in 1945. Riled by Moscow's unwillingness to settle the long-standing...
...there is a basic difference, I know about it only from the newspapers. The last position that was given to Foreign Minister [Andrei] Gromyko was jointly worked out by the Secretary of Defense and. myself. It was then approved by the President. If there should be a disagreement-and the disagreement is always much more in the press than in reality-then it will be settled by the President...
Kissinger, and Gromyko also, seized diplomatic opportunities in some areas outside the Middle East...
Hopeful Sign. Administration aides readily concede that the proposal was merely a trial balloon. There was at least one hopeful sign. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, following Kissinger to the U.N. podium, delivered a speech so ambiguous that it left listeners puzzling over just what Moscow felt about the Secretary's Middle East aims. Pressed by newsmen on that point later, Gromyko responded with some positive-sounding negatives: "I would not say that we do not agree on everything...
...does almost every year at the U.N., Gromyko proposed a sweeping disarmament agreement and repeated a call for a cessation of all nuclear testing. And as usual, his proposals, which seem mainly designed to impress the developing countries, elicited a lot of yawns and a scattering of polite applause. This year Gromyko called for a ban on "new weapons of mass annihilation." Typically, however, his speech contained no hint of how a ban on such weapons would be verified or just what items it would cover-issues that have stymied efforts at international disarmament for more than a decade...