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...provide a pretext for his absence, the East German news agency carried a story that he was ill. But the very next day, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew into East Berlin from Moscow for talks with Ulbricht, who for a 77-year-old has shown remarkable recuperative powers...
...Soviet Union are resuming their critical Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Helsinki this week. Last week the two powers agreed in Moscow to continue working toward compatible docking systems for their spacecraft, which could lead to eventual joint ventures beyond the earth. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, on his way home from a U.S. visit, became the first Soviet official of his rank ever to visit West Germany; while there, he conferred with Bonn's Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and hinted that a break-through might he near in the big-power talks on Berlin, which reconvene this week...
...midst of his recent 2½-hour meeting with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, President Nixon was quietly handed a bulletin torn from the White House wire-service printer. It quoted an announcement from Tass that Russian authorities were detaining four men, including two U.S. generals, whose plane had crossed the Soviet-Turkish border and been forced down in Armenia. Compared with the Middle East, Berlin and other problems the two men were discussing, the incident seemed minor. Yet by last week, for reasons that still mystify Washington, the Kremlin had blown it up to an episode of major proportions...
...severity of Kremlin rhetoric stunned U.S. officials. As Gromyko may have been advised by Moscow before reaching the White House, the plane was unarmed and carried no spy gear. A twin-engine cruiser, it had set out from the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, carrying the head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey, Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer; his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.; Major James P. Russell Jr., the pilot; and Colonel Cevdat Deneli, a Turkish liaison officer. Their mission was to inspect Turkish forces at Kars, some 20 miles from...
...ladies from the U.S.S.R. were doing their bit for culture in London last week. For Lydia Gromyko, wife of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was horticulture, as she dutifully sniffed and stared at the wares in the late autumn show of the Royal Horticultural Society. For Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected a couple of months ago from Russia and the Kirov Ballet, it was the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev-a star at the Kirov when she was in the corps de ballet...