Word: gromykoisms
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...classic brag designed to show that he alone dictated Soviet foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev once declared: "When I tell Gromyko to take off his pants and sit on a cake of ice, he does it." Last week, after sitting on the ice cake through nearly three years of steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty...
...small straw, but straws make the bricks of international agreement, and U.S. officials and newsmen alike grasped at it eagerly. Perhaps too eagerly. Before the week was out, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev seemed to be ordering Gromyko back to the freezer when he issued a tough reply to Lyndon Johnson's recent appeal for better East-West relations. "If the U.S. wants to develop mutual relations," snapped Brezhnev, it must "remove the main impediment," which, in his view, is the bombing of North Viet Nam by U.S. aircraft...
...Gromyko got his signals crossed? Hardly. He told President Johnson much the same thing in a private chat at the White House last week. Yet for weeks he had also been transmitting subtle signals of encouragement...
...resurgent Germany and his desire to banish Anglo-Saxon influence from the Continent to achieve the old goals of Soviet policy: 1) a settlement in Central Europe along lines of a neutralized, disarmed Germany, and 2) withdrawal of the U.S. from Europe. Complains Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The United States believes for some reason or other that Europe cannot do without its presence and trusteeship. But the people of Europe have and will yet have their say on this score...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 56, had an experience unique for a high Communist official: an audience with Pope Paul VI. The private, 45-minute encounter signaled a distinct détente between the Catholic and Communist worlds. Even five years ago, a meeting between a Pope and a Soviet foreign minister would have been unthinkable; now Gromyko and Paul were earnestly discussing peace and the dangers in Southeast Asia. After the audience, the Marxist carried away a gold medal commemorating the Ecumenical Council. But no pictures were taken to commemorate the meeting. The Vatican considers Gromyko too controversial...