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Conceivably, the former Vice President could benefit politically from a failed Reagan-Gromyko meeting, particularly if the President is seen as overdemanding or arrogant. In virtually any other circumstance, however, Mondale has little choice but to offer his support of the U.S. position. Says a Reagan campaign official: "Either Mondale ends up looking like he's being played as a patsy, or he looks like his position is not that different from Reagan's on arms control...
...Reagan, the meeting with Gromyko carries far greater political rewards, though the chance for failure still exists if the two sides find themselves further apart than ever...
Conveniently for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, there is ample precedent for meetings between Presidents and Gromyko in connection with ceremonial visits to the U.N. (There is no precedent, however, for talks between ranking Kremlin officials and campaigning presidential candidates from the opposition party.) The Soviet Foreign Minister has paid calls on six previous occupants of the White House under similar circumstances. Thus Administration officials were able to claim that Reagan's invitation to Gromyko was nothing more than a traditional gesture, though they neglected to point out that Washington has not extended the courtesy since...
...York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 150 leaders of delegations to the General Assembly session. Among other heads of state who planned to attend were Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín and the Sultan of Brunei. Gromyko planned to lead the Soviet delegation. Though it would be undiplomatic of Reagan and Gromyko to talk business at a social event, they will doubtless begin sizing each other up during small talk...
...Wednesday, Gromyko planned to spend much of the day-at least four hours and possibly up to eight-with Secretary of State George Shultz at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The Americans wanted to raise a wide variety of regional and bilateral issues during this session, including such disagreeable matters as Soviet aid to antigovernment rebels in El Salvador, Moscow's ties to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official...