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...open coffin banked with carnations, red roses and tulips. Chernenko, acting as the first among equals, led the delegation. Tikhonov came next, followed by a trio of senior Politburo members walking three abreast: Defense Minister Ustinov, in his familiar uniform with rows of ribbons, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Moscow Party Boss Victor Grishin. Behind them came Gorbachev and Romanov, walking side by side as if to dispel rumors of their rivalry for Andropov...
While insisting that "the imperialist" U.S. is "the main threat to peace," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko obliquely indicated that the Soviets might be willing to go along with a merger of START and INF talks. Such a step would allow the Soviets to slide around their vow not to resume INF talks as long as the U.S. was deploying Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. An even more promising feeler came from an unnamed "high-ranking Soviet official," widely assumed to be Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who suggested to the Boston Globe that the two powers seek a quick...
...Moscow will do more in the immediate future than keep communication lines open to the West. Another factor troubling the future of bilateral progress is the uncertain health of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, who has not been seen in public since last August. But there were no suggestions in Gromyko's behavior in Stockholm that he felt constrained by any leadership vacuum in the Kremlin. Said a U.S. diplomat...
...host of the conference, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, said that he did not expect a "rapid thaw" in the superpower chill but he could at least foresee "some cautious melting." The Shultz and Gromyko meeting in Stockholm seemed too tentative to serve as a reliable marker on the road back to a warmer U.S.-Soviet climate. But more warmth is wanted...
...Reagan has more than domestic politics on his mind. His milder message was supposed to set the tone for the meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this week in Stockholm. Both men will be traveling to the Swedish capital to attend the opening ceremonies of the Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. It will be the first time Shultz and Gromyko have met since they exchanged angry words in Madrid last September over the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Their discussions, along with Reagan...