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...thing that could conceivably change this fairly cautious approach would be a specific overture of some kind from Gromyko. U.S. officials candidly admitted that they did not have the slightest notion of what, if any, initiatives the Soviets were bringing with them. It is possible that Gromyko could table some specific proposals in his session with Shultz that would cause the U.S. side to regroup hastily. Said a senior State Department official, hoping that this would happen: "Whether it makes sense to talk specifics depends on whether the Soviets are prepared really to re-engage on arms control...
Much depends on Gromyko's reaction to any new approaches suggested by Reagan. Longtime observers of the Soviet Foreign Minister have nicknamed him "Grim Grom" for his stony demeanor and negative responses to pleas for Soviet compromise. Says a U.S. diplomat: "He loves to put you on the defensive." At his last meeting with Gromyko, this past January in Stockholm, Shultz found his Soviet counterpart in such profoundly bearish spirits that he decided against bringing up an exploratory arms-talks proposal, which he had been authorized to present only after considerable infighting within the Administration. A display of Grim...
...lessons of that period were pertinent. Only an audience that has heard and read almost daily allusions to Reagan as a power-mad ideologue intent on crushing the Communist system would recognize the editorial as Moscow's way of preparing the Soviet citizenry for news of the Gromyko-Reagan meeting, which has still not been officially announced. Whether this awkward analogy was intended to justify anything beyond the need to meet was not clear, but the context in which it placed the whole affair was hardly cause for encouragement. Nor for that matter was the blizzard of cartoons that...
...with a speech from the East Room of the White House in which he said that the U.S. "must and will engage the Soviets in a dialogue as serious and constructive as possible." That was followed by two big setbacks: Shultz's inability in Stockholm to sound out Gromyko on a possible fresh approach to START, and Moscow's scuttling of its own offer to discuss in Vienna the militarization of space. But Shultz was determined to keep his lines of communication open, primarily through Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin and the U.S. envoy to Moscow, Arthur...
...Gromyko's meeting with Mondale, by contrast, was offered by the Soviets, according to the Democrat's aides. Contact with the former Vice President's campaign was made in Washington on Sept. 10 through Barry Carter, a Mondale foreign policy adviser, by a Soviet academic. Over coffee the Soviet, whom Carter had known previously but declines to identify, said that if Mondale would like to have a chat with Gromyko, a meeting could be arranged. The offer was presented to the candidate by Aaron on a campaign flight. Mondale pressed Aaron on whether he thought the Soviet...