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Already swarming with familiar names, the Soviet fourth estate had another: Anatoly Andreevich Gromyko, 34, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son, who abandoned a bright diplomatic career as Russia's embassy counselor in London to become deputy department chief of the Soviet press agency Novosti. Now he'll be reporting what Daddy and his friends do from the same building on Moscow's Pushkin Square where Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina does her corresponding. Presumably they both will scoop Julia Petrova, a Novosti reporter whose grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, is not a very good news source...
...embarked on a program of nuclear sharing which may forestall agreement with the Soviet Union on arms control and nuclear proliferation. In the last six years, nuclear warheads have been mounted secretly on West German planes and missles, despite frequent warnings from Soviet officials -- repeated last week by Andrei Gromyko -- that "West German access to decisions" on nuclear weapons will freeze any further talks...
Over cocktails in Manhattan last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko inquired politely of Dean Rusk if Congress was still in session. Yes, it is, said the U.S. Secretary of State, explaining that it was dealing with home rule in the District of Columbia. Quipped Rusk: "It's one of our last vestiges of colonialism...
...Gaulle has even managed to estrange his most ardent followers in West Germany, including such a strong German "Gaullist" as Bavarian Boss Franz Josef Strauss. Fortnight ago, De Gaulle with great fanfare entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...
...that is, except Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk and his Red Chinese mentors. In Washington, Lyndon Johnson applauded the idea of a Cambodian conference. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson heartily concurred. And in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle was playing host to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, both France and Russia gave their consent. To all and sundry it seemed an ideal backdoor to negotiations over Viet Nam, and it was precisely that which bugged the Snook...