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...Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be looking for any clues to Soviet thinking on arms control in view of next month's meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...however, is likely to stand out amid the babble. Paul Nitze, appointed last week by President Reagan as top negotiator and senior adviser to Shultz on arms control, will be the only U.S. official actually sitting in with the Secretary of State during talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on Jan. 7 and 8. If those discussions eventually result in a resumption of formal U.S.-Soviet bargaining about nuclear weapons, Nitze could head the American negotiating team...
Nitze, who will celebrate his 78th birthday eight days after the talks with Gromyko conclude, adds stature to the American negotiating team. He is by far the most experienced U.S. bargainer with the Soviets, and in Washington has won the respect of both hardliners and moderates on arms control. A longtime advocate of American military strength, he also has been, in his own eyes at least, a consistent proponent of equitable agreement with the U.S.S.R. That stand led him to play a major role both in negotiating the SALT I treaty and in organizing opposition to the unratified SALT...
...Andrei Gromyko, the dour and durable Soviet diplomat who has survived 40 years of purges, intrigue and cutthroat competition for power...
Those upbeat sounds last week were designed to create a favorable atmosphere for the meeting on Jan. 7 and 8 in Geneva between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at which the two will try to set the agenda for a resumption of arms-control talks between the superpowers...