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That mood lasted not quite 24 hours - until Gromyko mounted the podium Thursday morning for his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. His face wrinkling at times into the expression of a man who has scented a peculiarly unpleasant odor, Gromyko for 75 minutes assailed the U.S. as the cause of all political tensions that have plagued the world since 1946. His speech, delivered in an icy monotone, was replete with outrageous assertions ("Provocative intrigues continue against sov ereign and nonaligned Afghanistan") and devoid of the slightest hint of a change in Moscow's position on any subject...
...With Gromyko, however, Mondale said he stressed that Reagan spoke for all Americans in negotiating with Moscow. After their 90-minute meeting at the Soviet Mission to the U.N., Mondale reported. "My plea to Mr. Gromyko was to look past tensions, rhetoric, previous positions, whatever complaints and grievances they had and give this [the negotiations] a chance ... I did what I could to create a hopeful atmosphere [and] I do believe that there is an opportunity... to make significant progress." But Mondale did not fully explain what Gromyko had said to justify that belief. He paraphrased Gromyko as complaining that...
Indeed, Soviet TV showed pictures on Friday of Gromyko conferring with Mondale before suddenly shifting to a shot of the Foreign Minister together with Reagan in the Oval Office; it was the first time the Soviet Union's citizens had been informed that Gromyko was meeting with the President. A Soviet commentator remarked, exaggeratedly, that superpower relations had become the dominant issue in the U.S. campaign; then the camera showed a copy of last week's TIME with Gromyko on the cover...
...odds are, of course, that it will still be Reagan the Kremlin deals with after Nov. 6; the Soviets presumably think so, or Gromyko would not have taken the opportunity last week to size up the President in person. Reagan's aides, however, do not expect to hear anything more of a substantive nature from Moscow until after the voting. Gromyko, they believe, will need time to confer with his colleagues in the Soviet leadership on what to do next, and the Administration will also have to do some retooling of the position to take if and when formal...
...White House aides, who had been telling reporters that Reagan and Gromyko had never met, corrected themselves after this display of Gromyko's prodigious memory...