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...first hours after Brezhnev's death two weeks ago. It grew more pronounced as Vice President George Bush and Shultz arrived in Moscow for the funeral, under specific instructions from President Reagan to emphasize U.S. willingness to ease tensions. Andropov, accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, an adviser on East-West relations, met with them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman for 30 min. in the brightly lit Green Room of the Kremlin. They discussed nuclear-arms control, Afghanistan and human rights, three of the prickliest issues between the two countries...
...Andropov came in through a side door, accompanied by Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Vasili Kuznetsov, the new Kremlin leader surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision...
...minister to travel to Moscow since 1964. Huang had arrived from Peking with a message from the Chinese leadership expressing a desire to speed up consultations designed to normalize relations between the two Communist giants. Following his meeting with Andropov, Huang conferred for 90 minutes with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko. The same day, Pravda Editor Viktor Afanasyev told a group of visiting Japanese journalists that both Peking and Moscow might agree to reduce their military forces along the Soviet-Chinese border. Though just such a proposal has been expected by diplomats since Brezhnev made overtures to Peking earlier this year...
When Huang returned to Peking after his four-day stay in Moscow, he told reporters that he and Gromyko had discussed "ways of removing obstacles and promoting consultations between deputy foreign ministers to achieve progress on substantive matters." A new round of talks would be held in Moscow, he said. Asked about the probable outcome, Huang replied: "I am optimistic." When an announcement came the next day that Huang was retiring for reasons of health, to be replaced by his senior deputy, Wu Xueqian, China experts took a closer look at Huang's seemingly unexceptional remarks. Inevitably, there...
Indeed, a number of them could still have a chance. Probably not Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, a career diplomat who may have to be content with the largely symbolic post of Soviet President. Or Boris Ponomarev, 77, a onetime historian, who seemed the ideal candidate to fill the role of party "theologian" before Andropov took the job held by the late Mikhail Suslov. Not elder statesmen like Brezhnev's Premier, Nikolai Tikhonov, 77, a man with more experience in government than in the party apparatus, or the widely traveled and urbane Central Committee Secretary Konstantin Rusakov...