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...Gromyko flies to Warsaw on the eve of a crucial congress...
There were no photographers on hand when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stepped onto the tarmac at Warsaw's Okecie Airport last week. The official Polish press agency reported only that "high party officials" had been there to greet the distinguished visitor. The low-key arrival of one of the Kremlin's most powerful leaders, a man widely regarded as a pragmatist rather than a hard-lining ideologue, was seen as a reassuring sign by many Poles. Said one Warsaw journalist: "It means that the Soviets are prepared to accept what we are doing as long...
...after a fierce debate in the Kremlin. Reliable reports reaching Whitehall, TIME has learned, indicate that the case in favor of intervention was made by hard-line Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, supported by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Brezhnev himself led the argument against invasion, backed by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The doves emerged victorious, but only just...
Meanwhile, the Kremlin escalated its war of words with the U.S. by releasing the text of a letter from Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Haig, accusing the U.S. of "open interference" in Poland and of making "distorted interpretations" of Soviet propaganda beamed at Iran. America's European al lies are concerned that the Administration's verbal confrontation with Moscow will destabilize East-West relations. The West Germans, for example, fear that the U.S. will pressure them to cancel plans to buy Soviet natural gas in return for high-technology goods. In addition, U.S. allies in Europe would like...
Percy said he convinced Brezhnev and Gromyko that the unratified SALT II accord was "as dead as a doornail." Percy suggested instead that representatives from both nations meet informally to decide what was worth salvaging from SALT II. Once they reached "reasonable agreement" on at least some principles, it might be possible to begin a new set of negotiations, Percy told the Soviets. "I would be surprised if both sides do not agree to sit down at an early date to discuss arms control," said Percy...