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Before Nixon spoke at the U.N., he invited Gromyko to the White House for what turned out to be a two-hour and 40-minute talk. Both men were aware that the current tension in U.S.Soviet relations has cast a shadow over the crucial Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which are scheduled to reconvene next week in Helsinki. Although Gromyko emphasized Soviet hopes for a successful agreement, the Kremlin has raised American suspicion by stepping up experiments with two models of MIRV (multiple, independently targeted re-entry vehicle), which are designed to be borne by the giant...
Sudden Drama. The Soviet Foreign Minister declined to soften Russia's recently restated demand for the severing of all of West Germany's governmental ties to West Berlin as the price for easing Communist control of the isolated city's vital access routes. Both Nixon and Gromyko steered away from one subject that had presumably been settled: the "submarine base" allegedly under construction at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Under a secret agreement reportedly reached earlier, the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw the four submarine-refueling and supply vessels sighted at Cienfuegos in return for a U.S. promise to soft...
...note of sudden drama was injected into the meeting when Nixon was informed by an aide that a light aircraft carrying two U.S. generals had strayed across the Turkish border and made an emergency landing in Soviet Armenia. The President immediately told Gromyko that he hoped the generals, their pilot and a Turkish liaison officer would be released quickly. Gromyko responded that the Soviets would take the "necessary steps" to investigate the incident, which was apparently caused by bad weather. At week's end the foursome, including Major General Edward Scherrer and Brigadier General Claude McQuarrie Jr., remained...
...dropouts. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu as the only Eastern European star-quality representative at the meeting. Ceausescu, of course, made the trip not so much to visit the U.N. as to drum up trade deals...
...more significant meetings took place between U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In a four-hour working dinner at the Soviet U.N. mission, Rogers brought up the question of missile violations and stressed the U.S. desire for rectification. Gromyko, in turn, accused Washington of tricking Cairo by promising Israel additional Phantom jets even though Nasser had agreed to a ceasefire...