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Muskie goes to meet Gromyko and finds Moscow urging a new summit...
There was no leisurely breaking-in period for Edmund Muskie as the 58th U.S. Secretary of State. Just eight days after being sworn into office, the nation's newest diplomat was scheduled to meet with one of the world's most experienced: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who has dealt with (and irritated) every American Secretary of State since John Foster Dulles...
Muskie and Gromyko will both be in Vienna to participate in ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the treaty ending the postwar occupation of Austria. Though their meeting is expected to be little more than a polite chat, it has symbolic importance. Not since superpower relations were severely chilled by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has there been any high-level contact between Washington and Moscow. If their brief talks go well, the two men may agree to see each other again, perhaps as soon as next month, for more comprehensive discussions that just might reopen a substantive U.S.-Soviet...
This week's meeting probably would not have been scheduled at all had Cyrus Vance not resigned as Secretary of State. So long as he was to represent the U.S. at the Austrian festivities, the White House was unsure about whether he should see Gromyko. Vance felt he should, but presidential advisers argued that the Soviets, not the Americans, ought to make the initial gesture to resume high-level contacts. It was Moscow's aggression in Afghanistan, after all, that had ruptured U.S.-Soviet ties in the first place...
...State Department's top Soviet experts. During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the confirmation hearings for his new post, he said: "I would expect each side to undertake to lay out its perception of each other's policies." Thus it was anticipated that Gromyko will claim, as Moscow does in public, that it sent a "limited Soviet military contingent" into Afghanistan in response to an appeal from the Kabul regime...