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...past five years, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had simply been "too busy" to keep his end of a 1965 agreement calling for annual talks with the Japanese. All of a sudden, Gromyko is not too busy at all. From the moment he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week for a six-day stay, the normally dour Russian was the epitome of diplomatic affability...
Flashing uncharacteristic smiles, he toured a Toyota plant, called on Emperor Hirohito (with Mrs. Gromyko in tow) and magnanimously agreed to the release of 14 Japanese fishermen whom the Soviets had accused of poaching in Russia's territorial waters...
...their part, the Japanese were eager for a little courting from the Soviets, if only to give both Washington and Peking something to think about. Even so, that did not mean that Gromyko would find the courting easy. About all he managed to wangle out of Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato and Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda was an agreement to begin negotiations some time this year on the peace treaty that has been languishing on the agenda ever since the two countries formally ended their state...
...debate" with Nikita Khrushchev at an American exhibition in Moscow; he was completely snubbed by Soviet officialdom when he visited Moscow as a private citizen in 1967. But shortly after he became President, he talked publicly of wanting to meet Soviet leaders eventually. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko privately discussed the possibility in Washington last year, but agreed that progress on access to Berlin and arms limitation must come first. Now there has been a preliminary four-power agreement on Berlin, and a consensus on limiting defensive missiles seems near in the SALT talks. Gromyko returned with...
...information furnished by Lyalin proved the last straw for Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government. Douglas-Home wrote to Gromyko last Dec. 3 and again on Aug. 4 to complain about the growing number of Soviet spies in Britain. The Russians never bothered to reply. In a particularly brazen gesture, the Soviets announced that they intended to send...