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...long, U.S.-orchestrated negotiations that led to the new Sinai agreement between Israel and Egypt, the Soviet Union became, more and more conspicuously, the odd man out in Middle East diplomacy. Now Moscow wants back in. This was the most important message conveyed by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week when he stopped off in Washington for two days of talks with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while enroute to the U.N. General Assembly. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter assesses the Soviet Foreign Minister's Washington visit...
Moscow holds Kissinger and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat responsible for the humiliation the Soviets suffered in the Middle East. This was fully reflected in Gromyko's mood, which one U.S. official described as "disappointed and unhappy." The Russians are not in a very strong bargaining position in the Arab world at the moment. Not only have they lost their influence in Egypt, but they also do not have much clout in Syria, even though some 3,000 Soviet technicians remain there. Ironically, the Soviets seem to be turning to the U.S. for help in getting back on the Middle...
...Gromyko has indicated that his government wants the Geneva Conference to reconvene in November and to have an "ironclad guarantee" from the U.S. that Moscow will play a key role in any future talks between the Israelis and the Syrians. While any enduring Middle East settlement demands some Soviet participation, Washington may find itself in a dilemma if it enters into an agreement with the Soviets regarding Geneva. Reason: Israel would probably argue that such an agreement violates the recent understandings between Jerusalem and Washington in which the U.S. promised "not to join in efforts by others to bring about...
...Gromyko gave his blessing to the current U.S. effort to negotiate a long-term grain agreement that would end the Soviet practice of plunging disruptively into the U.S. market whenever Russia's own harvests run short. Moscow is, in fact, ready to sign an agreement to purchase between 5 million and 8 million tons of American grain annually over the next five years and allow much of it to be shipped in U.S. vessels at a favorable rate-$16 per ton instead of the current...
Reaction to the agreement throughout the world was less than euphoric. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is co-chairman with Kissinger of the Geneva Peace Conference. Obviously angered and frustrated that they could contribute nothing to the new Sinai accord, the Russians refused to attend the signing of the articles−thereby forcing the U.S. to stay away as well. The Soviet press, which until last week had scarcely noticed Kissinger's shuttle, denounced the new agreement as "potentially dangerous" and "neglectful" of Arab needs. Understandably, the accord was bitterly attacked by Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation...