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...since France's Prince de Talleyrand, who survived the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte and the restored Bourbon monarchy, has a statesman pursued his craft with such success under so many different masters. Gromyko has served the Soviet state through all of its tortuous transformations, from Stalinist despotism to the vicissitudes of the Andropov and Chernenko years. He has dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 14 Secretaries of State. Says a diplomat who meets often with Gromyko: "He remembers not because he read a brief or a book, but as often as not because...
...compliments are almost universal. Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has called Gromyko "a thoroughly professional practitioner of the diplomatic trade, a man of great skill and high intelligence." "I must say I am filled with admiration," says a Western ambassador who recently was face to face with Gromyko. "Here is a man of nearly 75 who is taking very good care of himself. And when he speaks, his mind is quick and he is a master of detail...
Above all, Gromyko is recognized as an indestructible practitioner of Realpolitik. Says a West German diplomat: "He knows the long-term objectives of Soviet policy as no other human, and he sees things in that light...
...Gromyko told visiting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last month that arms-control talks with the U.S. could not resume unless the U.S. removed its missiles from Germany and Britain...
...Soviet forces while accepting only marginal restrictions on future U.S. programs. Administration officials admitted that their position was "front-loaded" with measures that would squeeze the Soviets in the short run, but they claimed that the long-term effect would be true equality and greater stability. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet spokesmen were contemptuous in dismissing what they called a "cynical American trick." They complained that the "essence" of the U.S. policy was to re-establish American superiority...