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...trying to keep the step-by-step approach alive, Kissinger received little help from the Soviet Foreign Minister. Gromyko and the Syrians composed another joint call for the reopening...
This week, as Kissinger departed for a scheduled sixth trip to Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there were worries that this might be the last chance for his step-by-step approach. Foreshadowing Kissinger's visit, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concluded a Middle East tour of his own to press the Russian preference-a return to Geneva. Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most unbending leader of the Arab confrontation powers, supports that preference. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat still has hopes that Kissinger can achieve further progress; nonetheless, the joint Egyptian-Soviet communiqué issued after Gromyko...
...Soviets will send Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad before Kissinger's visit. These are the three Arab capitals that Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev was to visit before he pleaded illness (TIME, Jan. 13). The Soviets are uncomfortably aware that, with French arms and Saudi Arabian subsidies, Sadat is now less dependent on Moscow. As a result, diplomats speculate that Gromyko might ease up on previous Russian demands that talks be shifted to Geneva...
...Visiting Moscow, Henry Kissinger is lectured by an angry Leonid Brezhnev and handed a letter from Gromyko. The letter, which is not made public for two more months, denounces the Jackson Amendment and threatens rejection of the 1972 trade agreement...
...Moscow releases the Gromyko letter and denies that it gave Kissinger assurances of an increase in Soviet emigration-a warning that the agreement itself may be rebuffed...