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...accusations and insults at each other, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have the first opportunity this week to engage each other at close quarters. In New York City to attend the 36th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will twice meet in private. Those sessions will be the first eyeball-to-eyeball contacts at the policymaking level since President Reagan's Inauguration...
...sure to be less hostile than the long-distance non-dialogue would suggest, since Haig is primarily interested in determining whether cooperation with Moscow is still possible. In preparation for the sessions, he held a rehearsal over the weekend, with a veteran State Department official who has watched Gromyko in action playing the Soviet and asking questions he is likely to raise. The Secretary has decided to be sober and businesslike in presenting U.S. complaints, on the logical ground that there is little prospect of cowing a wily old diplomatic pro who has dealt with seven of Haig...
...Secretary will also tell Gromyko that U.S.-Soviet relations can improve only if Moscow stops trying to gain unilateral advantages on the world scene. Partly in preparation for his encounter, Haig presided over a still secret interagency study of U.S.-Soviet relations, which concluded that the new watchwords of the superpower relationship must be "restraint, reciprocity and linkage." Each term, as Haig may explain to Gromyko, puts the onus for improvement on Moscow...
...produce the neutron bomb. The U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing South Africa's military operations in Angola has further isolated the U.S. from its allies and angered most African nations. Meetings will begin this month between Secretary Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at which negotiations on limiting theater nuclear forces in Europe should be scheduled...
That optimism may be premature. Gromyko's very presence in Warsaw was a sign of Soviet concern at a moment of political change and uncertainty unparalleled in Poland's postwar history. Buffeted by a year of sporadic labor unrest and economic turmoil, faced with the constant threat of Soviet intervention, the Polish Communists last week completed the election of delegates to an extraordinary party congress. Its purpose: to elect party leaders and act on a series of proposed structural reforms that are expected to make the Polish Communist Party by far the most liberal in the Soviet bloc...