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...Egypt, the Secretary suspended his efforts to get a second-stage disengagement and returned to Washington to report to President Ford and Congress. The official statement said that Kissinger would "remain in close touch with the Co-chairman of the Geneva Conference," referring to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...another Swiss meeting, Kissinger sought Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's support in maintaining the Middle East momentum. Kissinger's suggestion that the Russians back off from their persistent demands to reopen the Geneva conference was more or less rebuffed. Gromyko was more interested in other discussions on SALT, U.S.Soviet trade, the European Security Conference, and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit to Washington next summer. On Geneva, however, the two could agree only that the conference should reconvene "at an early date." In the involved semantics of diplomacy, Kissinger's aides insisted, it signaled that...
...military aid (TIME, Feb. 17). Moreover, the confrontation came just as U.S. relations with Athens were on the mend. Said George Mavros, chief opposition leader in the Greek Parliament: "It's unprecedented. I blame [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger, and I blame [Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko. They have been talking about stability and peace and a fair solution on Cyprus. What do we have tonight? The eastern Mediterranean in a shambles." A senior American naval officer concurred: "The entire American posture is in disarray. If we suddenly found that we were involved in any kind of shooting situation...
Geneva talks and also proposed a set time for discussions to begin-no later than early March, shortly before the United Nations' peace-keeping mandates in the Sinai and Golan Heights demilitarized zones expire. Gromyko obviously meant to use the Soviet-Syrian communiqué as a way to pressure Sadat, who so far has steadfastly resisted Soviet demands for talks in Geneva until he determines how much Kissinger's step-by-step strategy can accomplish...
Sadat apparently withstood the new pressure. After a four-hour talk with "my friend Gromyko," Sadat announced that they were agreed only on an "early" resumption of Geneva talks. Meanwhile, Sadat held to his determination to deal first step by step with "my friend Henry." Sadat, however, may feel new pressures from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who, Gromyko said, intends to visit Cairo "shortly...