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...three-hour meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko and President Reagan least week did not signify a major victory for American diplomacy, experts at the Kennedy School of Government and in the History Department said this week...
Paul M. Doty, director of the center for science and international affairs at the Kennedy School, agreed that the talks weren't significant by themselves, but said that something more substantial may develop when Gromyko confers in two weeks with members of the Soviet Central Committee...
...part, Reagan is utterly baffled why the Soviets keep saying they fear him and America, because neither has ever had any ambitions for empire or world revolution. Can he get a clue from Old Grom? Probably not. Gromyko is in his own way just as skillful an actor as Reagan. Gromyko has in the past reminisced about his warm times in the White House with Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull. But just a few months ago he conducted a cold and programmed shouting match with Secretary of State George Shultz in Madrid over the Korean airline incident...
Last week former Secretary of State Dean Rusk recalled how he watched Gromyko's face and body language as John Kennedy warned him about putting missiles into Cuba. Gromyko never gave himself away. He denied the missiles were on the island. "We knew the missiles were there," said Rusk. "The President had a desk full of photos. I'm sure Gromyko knew. He was doing what Moscow told him to do." Rusk took him to dinner that fateful October night, and Old Grom's mask remained impenetrable through vodka, wine and cognac...
...East-West temperature hits Hungary like a cold spell. Budapest downplayed East German Leader Erich Honecker's decision not to visit West Germany; instead it emphasizes the possible improvements in superpower relations that might result from the Washington meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...