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...Andropov group" in the Politburo is believed to be composed of Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, 74, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, Kazakh Party Chief Dinmukhammed Kunayev, 70, and Vladimir Shcherbitsky...
...differences of opinion could be aired before they could affect the looming struggle over Brezhnev's successor. In recent months, there have been indications that some elements in the military have not been pleased with certain policy decisions. Some generals, for example, reportedly disapproved of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's statement to the United Nations last summer that the Soviet Union would not be the first country to use nuclear weapons...
...acquainted dinner with his most important Western European partner, French President François Mitterrand. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, hopped another jetliner for New York City, where he sat down for preliminary talks with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations. The aim of all of this brisk activity was nothing less, in Kohl's words, than "to demonstrate to the world the continuity and viability of the West German government...
...Gromyko raised with Shultz one of the few vestiges of Soviet-American attempts at cooperation, nuclear arms-control talks, noting that little progress is being made. Negotiators from both countries returned to Geneva last week to resume talks on limiting intermediate-range nuclear forces (I.N.F.) in Europe. Strategic arms reduction talks (START) set to resume in Geneva this week...
...centerpiece of the whirlwind week was Shultz's first official meeting with Andrei Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister has met with nine American Secretaries of State during his 25 years in office. Since he speaks English fluently, he did not ask to have Shultz's remarks translated, but he did reply in Russian. As they sat in U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's office for their three-hour meeting, Gromyko gave a grim assessment of Soviet-American relations. Shultz, in turn, pressed Gromyko on Moscow's intervention in Poland, Afghanistan and Cambodia, and on use of biological...