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...very first communication addressed to the Soviets by the Reagan Administration, a letter from me to Andrei Gromyko on the day after the Inauguration, expressed American concern over the possibility of Soviet intervention in Poland. "We will stay out," I told Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in the early spring of 1981, "and we want you to do the same." Dobrynin's somber reply: the Soviet Union would do what...
...every meeting with Soviet officials, I continued to stress that all hope of progress on every question involving our countries depended on Soviet behavior toward Poland. When Foreign Minister Gromyko and I met in New York City on Sept. 23, 1981-my first encounter with him as Secretary of State-I seized the occasion to tell him that the Polish situation was a matter of great concern to the U.S. He made no reply...
...Gromyko, the inimitable Nikita Khrushchev said, "He will...
...block of ice with his pants down until he's told to get up-or lose his job." Lord Home of the Hirsel, the former Prime Minister of Britain, tells of a conversation about sporting guns with Mrs. Gromyko. She said, "If you buy a gun for my son, buy a better one than you buy for my husband, because my son lets the ducks rise off the water...
...direction. Even though Reagan has yet to focus on the details of the framework approach, he has become tantalized by the idea of achieving a breakthrough before the election. He has authorized Shultz to discuss the possibility of a new START approach with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin. If there is to be progress, Reagan stressed last week, it will be achieved through "quiet diplomacy." A number of policymakers emphasized that in addition to cooling the public rhetoric, the U.S. must engage the Soviets in intensive secret talks...