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...sure?" Yes, she said, she was sure, and the conversation floated back to more effervescent subjects. When it came time for the two men to go in to lunch, however, Gromyko returned to the central issue. "Well, then," he instructed the President's wife, "you whisper peace in his ear every night...
Three months later, Nancy Reagan describes the heady encounter with precision and some satisfaction. She is pleased not so much that she got the last word with Gromyko but that the exchange took place at all. If Gromyko had come in 1981 instead of 1984, she says, "he probably wouldn't have broached it." Why? "Because I was different then...
...Gromyko may or may not know it, but Nancy Reagan has changed. She still sometimes wears extraordinarily expensive Galanos dresses (size 4 or 6) and $950 beaded silk evening pajamas by Adolfo, and she still conveys a certain brittle, recherche haughtiness that drives feminists crazy. But she is no longer the liability for the President that she sometimes was during his first two years in office. In fact, in the past two years she has probably become an outright political plus, winning friends and influencing people. She remains tightly wound, by her own description "a born worrier...
...George Shultz and Andrei Gromyko arrived in Geneva this past weekend, one question hanging over their eagerly awaited two-day meeting was this: What could the U.S. Secretary of State find to say that the Soviet Foreign Minister, who is fluent in English, could not have learned in advance from the American press? Well before the talks were scheduled to begin on Monday, the White House spelled out in detail the stand that President Reagan had instructed Shultz to take. The key element: the U.S. would not even consider any slowing of its efforts to develop a Star Wars antimissile...
...other respects also, the U.S. position appeared so hard-line as to raise considerable doubt that new arms-control talks could make much progress, even if Shultz and Gromyko fulfilled the stated purpose of their talks and agreed on procedures for resuming substantive negotiations. As outlined last week in "background" briefings by "senior Administration officials" whose identity was hardly a secret--National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane put part of one briefing on the record--Shultz's instructions were to make three presentations...