Word: gromyko
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Ronald Reagan studied the man in front of him and decided Andrei Gromyko was old, far older in some ways than he looked, older than his 75 years. And more important, Gromyko was talking for a group back in the Kremlin that was even more ancient, and perhaps frozen, in their distrust and loathing...
...aging men of the Politburo may have seen Reagan, robust both physically and politically right now, as some kind of threat. Reagan listened and watched Gromyko as he had rarely scrutinized a man before; looking for clues from words, from eyes, from a touch or handclasp...
Almost from the start of their talk, one signal came through to Reagan loud and clear. It was that Gromyko had no signal to send at all. No message in his eyes. No meaning in his grip. No words that held promise for any kind of agreement. Gromyko's presence in the White House was the only hint that Soviet-U.S. relations might be changing...
...Gromyko was like a seismograph inserted into the very heart of America's Government, absorbing all the tremors but sending absolutely nothing back. Gromyko talked, but what Reagan heard was right out of the briefing book, a recitation of prejudices, perceived insults and the history of the world acl cording to the U.S.S.R...
Reagan waited nearly four hours for a nicker of flexibility, any tiny gesture of accommodation. None came. Once Gromyko was recalling how it was back...