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...officials observe that the Soviets are showing a new willingness to discuss human rights. Says a State Department analyst: "When we met with ((former Foreign Minister)) Andrei Gromyko, we'd try to raise human rights and he would say it was an internal matter. Now the Soviets bring up the issue." To be sure, they often seek to turn it to their advantage by complaining of what they consider American abuses, including unemployment, homelessness and the imprisonment of anti-nuclear protesters...
Shortly before Reagan's second Inauguration, in January 1985, Secretary of State George Shultz met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva and agreed to get negotiations started again. They settled on a formula for three sets of talks -- INF, the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, and a new negotiation on defense and space, focusing on the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. But the Soviets insisted, and Shultz agreed, that the three sets of issues would eventually have to be resolved "in their interrelationship." The Soviets said at the time that this phrase meant hard- and-fast "linkage": there could...
There is reason to wish him well, but also reason for skepticism. More often than not, the legacy of Russian and Soviet reformers has been reaction. Thaws have turned to chills. So far, much of the Gorbachev phenomenon is words. Andrei Gromyko, the longtime Foreign Minister who two years ago became the country's largely ceremonial President, used to say there is a big difference between words and deeds. Yet in a country where one can be sent to the Gulag for saying the wrong thing, words are deeds. In a closed, hidebound dictatorship, Gorbachev's slogans of openness, restructuring...
...feud with Nancy. Her influence, though, is unquestionably special. Last Wednesday, which happened to be the Reagans' 35th wedding anniversary, the President said, as he often does when people ask him his age, "My life began 35 years ago." And only Nancy could promise former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, as she once did, that she would whisper "peace" in Ronald Reagan's ear each night...
...gamble, it appeared to pay off in Moscow. When Gorbachev stepped off his jet Monday night, he was treated like a conquering hero by the Politburo. They shook his hand in vigorous congratulations in a scene viewed by millions on Soviet TV. Even Andrei Gromyko, the granite-faced grand old man of Soviet foreign policy, was smiling...