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...silvery Aeroflot 11-62M rolled up to a remote corner of New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport last week, its Cyrillic letters designating it an aircraft of the Soviet Union. Out stepped the dour and durable figure of Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, for 27 years the Soviet Union's top diplomat, who was arriving in New York to attend the 39th annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. Gromyko and his entourage of about 30 began walking toward an eleven-car motorcade lined up on the tarmac. Then, spotting a band...
...Gromyko's arrival, though it had the trappings of diplomatic ritual, was anything but routine. A little more than a year ago, in the midst of the worldwide outrage over the Soviet Union's shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the Governors of New York and New Jersey ordered the Port Authority to deny landing rights to Gromyko's jetliner at any of its airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow...
This year, by contrast, Gromyko was arriving not only to deliver a major address at the U.N. outlining the Soviet Union's view of world affairs, a matter of growing concern to other nations as the result of seemingly immobilized leadership within the Kremlin. He was also scheduled to meet at the White House on Friday with Ronald Reagan, thus becoming the sole high-level Soviet official with whom the President has held discussions zin more than 3½ years in office. Out of that session, at the very least, will come a fresh reading on the high-stakes...
Indeed, a remarkable aspect of Gromyko's trip was his willingness to interject himself into domestic electoral politics: in addition to calling on a President actively seeking reelection, he planned to meet the preceding day with Democratic Challenger Walter F. Mondale. Rarely if ever have lines between the nation's fiercely partisan politics at home and its foreign policy become so blended, and possibly blurred, just six weeks before a presidential election...
Reagan's earlier failure to meet with Soviet officials will automatically become a muted issue after Gromyko's visit to the White House. The big question is whether Mondale's other charges will as well...