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...Soviets, who two months ago were pressing to reconvene the multi-nation Geneva Conference, are now less eager to sponsor such a meeting. They are worried that it might fail and seem resigned to another Kissinger attempt at direct diplomacy. At his meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Vienna's Hotel Imperial two weeks ago, Kissinger was asked by a newsman if he would return soon to the Middle East. "I don't plan to go," said the Secretary. Cut in Gromyko archly: "Not tomorrow, anyway...
Privately, Palestinian leaders fear that they are losing support from heretofore steadfast allies. Saudi Arabia's new King Khalid has in effect acknowledged Israel's right to exist by saying: "Israel can live within her 1967 borders." Russia's Gromyko has gone a step further by suggesting Soviet guarantees for Israel in return for its withdrawal from occupied territories. Said Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Syria-based Saiqa group within the P.L.O.: "The parties that really need guarantees are the Palestinians and the Arabs. Gromyko made the mistake of picturing the pyramid standing on its head...
...Giovanni Leone, Premier Mariano Rumor and Pope Paul VI. Traveling with Ford will be Kissinger, who last week spent five days in Europe setting the stage for the presidential diplomacy. Kissinger visited Ankara, Bonn, West Berlin and Vienna, where he talked for eleven hours with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
Normally, such a pro-Palestinian move would anger Israel, but Jerusalem largely ignored it. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government was relieved that Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had agreed at their Vienna meeting to delay any reconvening of the Geneva talks until autumn. One Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "This will relieve the pressure and allow a politically useful and militarily quiet summer...
...fact that the Soviets may now seize opportunities offered by the miscarriage of Kissinger's Middle East mission can scarcely be credited to Soviet diplomatic shrewdness or sabotage. In fact, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko promised Kissinger that Moscow would not interfere with the Secretary's shuttle talks on condition that the U.S. would agree to resume the Geneva Conference. Instead, Moscow's Middle East policy has been characterized by 1) patience in advancing long-term Soviet interests; 2) prudence in avoiding any direct confrontation with the U.S.; and 3) providing massive arms aid to favored Arab nations...