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When Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last met, recalls one senior American official, "There was no name calling, and not a lot of rhetoric." But that was in September, and there was also no crackdown in Poland. Since then, U.S.-Soviet tensions have escalated into sanctions. Nonetheless, to the relief of European allies and the discontent of many American conservatives, Haig and Gromyko will meet again this week, in Geneva. "It's going to be a pretty frosty atmosphere," says a Haig assistant. Even so, notes William Hyland, once a policy aide...
...arguing that the Administration does not grasp the need to back up denunciations of Soviet pressure on Poland with clear, telling actions. In this view, the very decision to talk gives the Soviets a propaganda coup. Concedes one State Department official: "Everybody in Poland will see Haig and Gromyko sitting down together. It will look like the U.S. Government approves martial...
...issue of Polish repression, de-emphasized the talks by saying he would attend only one day of meetings, not the planned two. He also told aides that he would deflect questions of a summit meeting soon between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and would resist efforts by Gromyko to bargain toward the Soviets' key objective, a date for reopening general strategic arms talks (START). Instead, said an aide to Haig, the Secretary would deal almost exclusively with "Poland and the whole range of Soviet activities detrimental to our interests and those of our allies...
...Moscow, meanwhile, where Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek was conferring with his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, a joint communiqué denounced the NATO declaration as "an attempt at grossly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." In a separate commentary, however, the Soviet news agency TASS expressed the hope that disagreements over the Polish question would not compromise the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons...
...would take a direct hand in trying to bring about a Palestinian autonomy agreement between Egypt and Israel, preferably within the next three months. Toward that end, he has decided to return to the Middle East later this month, following a meeting in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...