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WHEN SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko walked away from his meeting with Walter Mondale Thursday, the usually poker-faced Soviet nyet-man was smiling...
...leaders of the United States. It was also meant to cast Mondale as the more reasonable, moderate half of the Presidential candidate duo, as a practical statesman aware of the urgency of superpower communications. At a brief and formal meeting with the President earlier in the week, by contrast, Gromyko was careful to maintain an expression of utter solemnity...
...exactly Mondale's maintenance of a hard-line stance during the last week that prevented his early meeting with Gromyko from generating any harmful backlash. The Democratic candidate handled the sensitive situation with a deftness and caution which bespoke his past experience as a behind-the-scenes negotiator. He kept quiet about precisely what was said in his discussion with the Soviet Foreign Minister. He also carefully avoided jumping into actual negotiations himself, advising Gromyko in no uncertain terms to go back to the bargaining table with the Reagan Administration and upholding the President's supreme jurisdiction over national security...
...however slim the chances for progress in negotiations between the superpowers may be in the near future, one comforting conclusion can be drawn from the historic Mondale-Gromyko meeting Thursday. Both participants approached the table with a soberness and professionalism befitting the major problems their countries must face--a welcome change from the bluster and ideological posturing that has emanated from both the White House and the Kremlin in the last few years...
Ashton B. Carter, research fellow at the Kennedy School, took a more positive view of the talks. He said Gromyko was making a diplomatic concession by agreeing to speak with Reagan at all. Gromyko's decision shows that the Soviets are more interested in achieving arms reduction than participating in American politics...