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...Andrei Gromyko first appeared on the cover of TIME in 1947, when he was Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister. He was featured most recently last June, when the magazine reported that his influence in the Kremlin had reached an unprecedented level. Gromyko's arrival in the U.S. to meet with President Reagan and Democratic Candidate Mondale this week gave TIME'S editors a valuable opportunity to assess the state of the superpower relationship and its impact on the domestic political scene...
Associate Editor William Doerner, who wrote the cover story, has visited the Soviet Union twice, in 1969 and 1979. He has devoted eight of his 17 years at TIME, including a two-year stint in Paris, to writing and editing on foreign affairs. "What struck me vividly about Gromyko's visit," says Doerner, "is that just about this time last year I was writing about the destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, as a result of which the Soviet Foreign Minister was barred from landing at the New York area's civilian airports. Now there...
...other side of the world, attitudes about the Gromyko-Reagan meeting were less upbeat. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof was startled by a question put to him as he went about his reporting last week. "A middle-aged Muscovite asked me if it was true that Reagan 'is like Hitler.' When I told her that this image was completely erroneous, she replied, 'But that is what our television commentators tell us.' " For the cover image, Photographer Brian Alpert took a rare picture of Gromyko inside the Soviet mission in New York City, a building that...
...that he revive the custom of inviting the Soviet Foreign Minister to Washington during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. (The tradition lapsed in 1979, when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan soured relations with the U.S.) Reagan agreed to the visit and authorized the State Department to invite Gromyko to meet with Shultz in New York on Sept. 26 and call at the White House two days later. In late August the Soviets accepted. The two countries decided jointly that they would not announce the visit until after Shultz and Gromyko had met. But, for unspecified reasons, First Deputy...
...most important campaign issue." Last week the programs, collectively called The New Cold War, got off to an attention-getting start: during a live interview with Soviet military Chief of Staff Sergei Akhromeyev and Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko, Today Anchor Bryant Gumbel asked whether Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would accept an invitation to meet with President Reagan. It appeared that the Soviets, who had welcomed NBC'S visit, took the opportunity to give the series a calculated boost. Korniyenko's headline-making reply: "There will be no difficulties on our part." American officials and scholars, who appeared...