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...Grigory Romanov, the man who some Western analysts believe had been Gorbachev's rival for the Communist Party leadership before the General Secretary's March 11 accession, was unceremoniously dropped from the ruling Politburo. One of the oldest and most familiar Kremlin figures of all, Andrei Gromyko, who has been his country's Foreign Minister for the past 28 years, was raised to the prestigious but largely ceremonial post of President, a position that had been vacant since the death of Konstantin Chernenko on March 10. Immediately thereafter, the Foreign Ministry passed into the untried hands of Eduard Shevardnadze, party...
Shultz and Gromyko moved their talks through a series of "headlines" -- topics that either side could name. One hoped-for headline never discussed was a summit meeting. The U.S. was determined not to raise the issue explicitly, but Shultz provided Gromyko several openings to bring up President Reagan's invitation to meet with Gorbachev. The Soviet Foreign Minister did not take the lure. The Americans concluded that at present Gorbachev is more concerned with internal affairs than with diplomatic initiatives. The U.S., for its part, does not want to appear overeager. "It's obviously stupid to chase after the Soviets...
Much of the meeting concentrated on the Geneva arms talks, which are to resume May 30. Gromyko persisted in linking reductions in Soviet missiles to a ban on U.S. research for the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. Shultz again argued that Star Wars and offensive weapons are separate issues; he contended that U.S. negotiators in Geneva would be flexible if the Soviets were...
...sides were equally unyielding on other issues. Shultz repeated American demands for a Soviet apology for the March 24 killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson Jr. and reminded Gromyko of "how these incidents blow our relationship off course." Although the Soviets seemed to acknowledge Shultz's lecture on the Nicholson killings, Gromyko turned icy when the Secretary of State chastised him for Moscow's treatment of dissidents like Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who, along with his wife Yelena Bonner, has been exiled to the isolated city of Gorky. Soviet sources indicate that Sakharov went on a five-day hunger strike...
Shultz and Gromyko talked again privately for ten minutes or so after the ceremonies commemorating the 30th anniversary of the treaty that ended Allied occupation of Austria and granted the country permanent neutrality. In their speeches, both diplomats pointed to the Austrian treaty, which required ten years of East-West discussions, as an example of their difficult but hopeful work. Said Shultz: "This is a lesson we hope to see repeated in our negotiations with the Soviet Union...