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Haig talks to Gromyko, Begin and Mubarak, who talk back
...sooner had he set forth on his quick trip to Europe and the Middle East last week than U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig tipped his hand. During his first stopover, in Geneva, he told the world that he would tell Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the "outrage" felt by the U.S. over the Soviet-backed crackdown in Poland. The poker-faced Gromyko, who in his time has dealt with eight American Secretaries of State, responded that he had "absolutely no intention" of discussing Poland. The meeting promised, as Haig then observed, to be a "very short...
...Haig-Gromyko confrontation lasted for eight hours, twice the amount of time originally scheduled. The two men, accompanied only by their interpreters, did in fact speak extensively of Poland, but as Haig said later, "Poland cast a long, dark shadow over all the discussions involving East-West relations." The U.S. believes that there must inevitably be a link between the state of affairs in Poland and Soviet behavior in other parts of the world (see following story). Thus, in the U.S. view, the Polish situation makes it impossible to announce the beginning of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with...
Even if the Polish crisis had not arisen, Haig might not have been ready to launch the broader START talks with Gromyko. Although technical preparations are fairly far along, top U.S. officials "just haven't taken the fundamental decisions" on policy yet, says one arms control specialist. The bargaining package will be ready "by early spring," projects Eugene Rostow, chief of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But that deadline could be postponed because of the divergent views of the arms control agency, the State Department and the Pentagon. As one beleaguered combatant puts it, "The Soviets rank about...
...decline over the previous two years. One of those allowed to emigrate earlier was Avital Shcharansky, 31, who met Secretary of State Alexander Haig during his trip to Israel two weeks ago. He promised her that he would raise Shcharansky's case with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko when they meet in Geneva this week...