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...result of this historic meeting, the first extended discussion Reagan has ever held with a member of the top Kremlin leadership? "No visible signs" of any "practical, positive change in U.S. foreign policy," Gromyko complained in a statement to the Soviet 15 news agency TASS, and thus no reason to expect "a turn for the better" in superpower relations. Reagan put git more pungently to aides as Secretary of State George Shultz was escorting Gromyko out of the White House. Said the President: "Now I've learned to speak Russian-Nyet." In a formal briefing for the journalists...
Even that relatively modest outcome should make the meeting a re-election asset for Reagan. One of his few campaign weaknesses has been the nagging worry that he had let relations between the nuclear superpowers drift into a dangerous limbo. Simply appearing on TV with Gromyko should win him points from voters for at least trying to restart a dialogue...
...intense and much publicized diplomacy that began at the United Nations in New York. Appearing before the General Assembly on Monday, Reagan gave one of the most conciliatory speeches of his presidency, proposing regular negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on many levels and varying issues. But Gromyko had made it clear in his harshly worded speech to the U.N. Thursday that Moscow was looking for U.S. concessions before resuming formal bargaining on arms control or, indeed, almost anything else. He clung to that position consistently, though a bit less polemically, in private meetings with Shultz and Reagan...
Nonetheless, some Reagan aides hoped to the end that their boss might pry some more substantive agreement out of the Soviet visitor. Gromyko was well aware of that attitude. As he entered the White House at 10 a.m. Friday, he was invited to sign the guest book in the Roosevelt Room, a task he had performed several times before. On this occasion he said, in English, "Aha, my first concession." It was pretty much his last. After four separate waves of photographers had paraded through the Oval Office, serious discussion began almost immediately. TIME has obtained this account...
...opening statement, Gromyko basically blamed the U.S. for most of the tensions in the world. But, he said, Washington has no reason to fear the Soviet Union; Moscow wants to deal realistically. Gromyko then turned to the subject of nuclear weapons, which dominated the rest of the meeting, though there was occasional discussion of other problems such as the Iran-Iraq war and Lebanon. Reagan and Gromyko did nearly all the talking; their aides rarely got to say much...