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...Haig and Gromyko meet and set a date in Geneva...
...adjectives used in diplomacy are almost as precise in their meaning as equations in physics. Thus when a State Department spokesman described last week's meeting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as "frank and businesslike," his listeners knew that the session may not have been a love feast, but that some progress had been made. At the first high-level dialogue between the two superpowers in twelve months, and the first for the Reagan Administration, Haig and Gromyko soberly spelled out each nation's grievances with a minimum of posturing...
...Haig-Gromyko conference took place in the office of the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Jeane Kirkpatrick, on the eleventh floor of the U.S. Mission in New York. Sitting on green sofas, the two men chatted while photographers clicked away. In a slip of the tongue, Haig noted that he had been reading the Soviet official's "bibliography" and learned that Gromyko had begun his diplomatic career in the U.S. in 1943 as Soviet Ambassador to Washington. Gromyko, 72, corrected the record by observing that he first came to the U.S. in 1939 as a counselor in Moscow...
...pair then talked for nearly three hours with only their interpreters present. Gromyko predictably complained about the Reagan Administration's plans for a massive military buildup and faulted its foggy position on arms control. Taking note of Washington's anti-Soviet harangues, he accused the U.S. of wrecking detente. In answer, Haig cited President Reagan's fervent belief that Moscow is to blame for any chilly relations and attacked the Soviets for continuing to press their own formidable military augmentation. He also ticked off a familiar list of examples of Soviet expansionism: Angola, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Yemen...
Haig will also try to convince Gromyko that something fundamental has changed in the U.S. -namely, the Reagan Administration not only talks tougher than its predecessors, it is tougher. As evidence, the Secretary may cite the new military programs that the President has proposed...