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...Department point out that beneath the rhetorical barrages the actual commitments of troops and other military units in areas of aggravation and possible confrontation (El Salvador, Lebanon) are quite small compared with those of ten or 20 years ago (Viet Nam, Cuba). One top official, watching the angry Shultz-Gromyko meeting in Madrid after the airliner was shot down, saw all the elements of a classic diplomatic explosion and instant walkout. Yet something kept the two men talking. They feared for their images. In this skirmish, Gromyko faltered. He suggested to the world that his government would do it again...
...truculence of the official Soviet response (Andrei Gromyko assured the world that the Soviet Union was quite prepared to shoot down the next violator of its airspace) led to a rounding up of the usual suspects: Soviet feelings of inferiority, hypersensitivity, paranoia, suspiciousness, what have you. These explanations do not satisfy. For what was so stunning about the Soviet reponse was its lack of feeling. What sent a chill through the world (as even more ruthless Soviet behavior like the invasion of Afghanistan had not) was the undertone of stony incomprehension in the Soviet response to pleas for some acknowledgment...
...case of the right hand not knowing what the left was doing. Or maybe the problem was that neither hand knew what it was doing at all. First came U.S. Delegate Charles Lichenstein's inflammatory suggestion last week, during the flap over Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's canceled visit, that delegates unhappy with a U.S.-based United Nations should consider moving the organization's headquarters elsewhere. Startled White House aides tried to douse that fire by saying that Lichenstein's views were purely "personal." Then U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick sprinkled some kerosene on the blaze...
...answer surfaces by following a typical items which ran earlier this month as part of page one's "Newsline," yet another "inside this issue" feature: "Abroad: Schultz to meet with Soviet's Gromyko next week; 7A," Turning to page 7A, one finds the full story...
Secretary of State Shultz will meet with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in Madrid next week, the State Department said Monday. A department spokesman would not way what the two will talk about but obviously there is a lot to discuss with the Soviets. The meeting will take place between September...