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bombers and Polaris-armed submarines assigned to NATO. But the Americans refused to budge, since the Soviets have not placed any parallel systems of their own on the table. Gromyko and Haig instead drafted a statement that did not specify which weapons would be discussed. Both sides left bilateral issues, such as trade and the possible resumption of SALT talks, for a second get-together scheduled this week...
...Gromyko spoke before the assembly the next day. Evoking memories of the icy rhetoric of the cold war, the Soviet minister caustically attacked U.S. policies around the globe, including its "imperialist interference" in El Salvador. He charged that the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, designed for quick military action around the world, was "nothing but a policeman's billy club." Noting the contrast between Haig's blandness and Gromyko's bellicosity, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson quipped that the talks had been given by "Mr. Haig and General Gromyko...
...counterthrust to Gromyko s speech, Haig issued a statement summarizing the contents of a note that Reagan had sent to Brezhnev the same day Though the President wrote that the U.S hoped to forge "a stable and constructive relationship" with the Soviet Union, he accused Moscow of seeking "military superiority" over the U.S. and using force in regional conflicts to win a "unilateral advantage." Said one aide: "We figured that no matter what Gromyko had to say it was worthwhile trying to get in the last word." -By James Kelly...
...part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs" in the hope of "shaking loose the socialist foundations of the Polish state...
...European officials doubted that the Soviets would risk the wrenching consequences of an invasion, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated Washington's strong opposition to such a move in his meeting with Gromyko last week. Still, the Soviets were firmly pressuring their Polish comrades to crack down on the troublesome union just as Solidarity delegates were preparing to assemble in Gdansk for the second round of their national convention...