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...Year of the Missile is barely a month gone, yet already the sense of urgency is intense, the diplomatic activity frenzied. French President François Mitterrand and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on missions to Bonn last week, and Vice President George Bush will arrive in the West German capital next week. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set forth her position in the House of Commons; in Rome, the Pope outlined his in an address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. With pressure building on all sides, President Reagan defended his record on arms control at an impromptu press...
...Gromyko's four-day visit to West Germany marked yet another Soviet pitch to European public opinion. His timing was no accident: West German parliamentary elections will be held on March 6 (see box), and the arms-control issue may swing the outcome. The election results, in turn, could determine whether the American missile deployment proceeds on schedule, not only in West Germany but in the other NATO countries as well. Gromyko strove to be dovish in Bonn, though he did drop an occasional note of menace. "We cannot ignore the fact," he warned, "that the Federal Republic...
...three months ago, when Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping agreed to resume consultations between the two countries after a frosty intermission of nearly three years. The Soviets, who have long hoped for better links with Peking, quickly responded. At Leonid Brezhnev's funeral last November, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went out of his way to give his Chinese counterpart, Huang Hua, a cordial welcome. After a 90-min. meeting, both sides declared that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good...
...highest decision-making body in the Soviet Union, the Politburo functions like a super-Cabinet that charts both foreign and domestic policy behind closed doors. Its membership includes representatives of the government like Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 74, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, as well as key functionaries in the party bureaucracy such as Konstantin Chernenko, 71, and a handful of republic and urban party leaders like Moscow Boss Viktor Grishin, 68. The new General Secretary will have to appoint known loyalists if he hopes to prevail in Politburo debate...
...Defense Minister Geng Biao had been replaced. Huang's fall seemed especially abrupt. He had just returned from the Soviet Union, where he had headed the Chinese delegation to Leonid Brezhnev's funeral. He had also held talks in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and delivered a warm expression of support for an improvement in relations between Peking and Moscow...