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Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko accepts a Reagan invitation...
Administration officials had a tough time containing their ebullience, and with good reason. In an interview on NBC's Today show last week (see PRESS), a top Soviet official hinted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko might be willing to accept an invitation from President Reagan to meet in Washington. The news could hardly have been more auspicious for Reagan, who consistently registers low poll marks on the issues of war and peace. The next day Reagan hastily called a press conference to say that the Gromyko meeting would take place on Sept...
...temporarily took the starch out of one of Walter Mondale's key campaign issues: Reagan's failure to meet with Soviet leaders. Cornered by reporters at Chicago's Midway Airport on his way to Green Bay, Wis., Mondale stopped short of accusing Reagan of using the Gromyko visit for partisan gain. "I'm glad it's occurring," he said. "But I think it's pretty pathetic that an Administration, in the middle of its campaign for reelection, has its first meeting not with the Soviet counterpart of the President, but with the Foreign Minister...
...Gromyko's surprising acceptance came after a yearlong effort by some members of the Administration to soften Reagan's confrontational approach. On Jan. 16, Reagan offered an olive branch to the Soviet Union in the form of a conciliatory foreign policy address. A few days later, Secretary of State George Shultz met with Gromyko in Stockholm to feel out the Soviets' receptivity to a more flexible strategic missile-limitation plan. The meeting was unproductive. Worse still, the Kremlin kept up a steady drumbeat of harsh anti-Reagan rhetoric...
...need to check American advances in weaponry at the negotiating table. Ogarkov is thought to have pushed for the start of talks in Vienna this fall on limiting the arms race in space, but he may have run up against opposition from his boss, Ustinov, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who have all but given up on negotiations for the time being. Ogarkov may have also been singled out as the scapegoat for the Kremlin's failure to halt the deployment of new U.S.-built intermediate-range missiles in Europe, or he may have been blamed for the increasingly...