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...year after the Soviets abandoned parallel sets of negotiations in Geneva on strategic arms (START) and intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), they have decided to come in from the cold. On the first Monday in January, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Secretary of State George Shultz are to sit down together in Geneva and begin working out the basic ground rules and agenda for a whole new set of weapons talks. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "There are powerful interests on both sides in having these negotiations succeed...
Nevertheless, the Shultz-Gromyko meeting, with its explicit goal of getting arms control back on track, is the single most hopeful bit of progress in U.S.-Soviet relations since the now moribund START discussions got under way more than two years ago. When President Reagan was told about the Geneva plans last Monday at his Santa Barbara ranch, recalls McFarlane, his response was simple and apt. "This is good news," Reagan said...
...December (see box). As Shultz arrives in Geneva in January, a U.S. Commerce official will be in Moscow for quieter talks about how to expand U.S.-Soviet trade. This week Soviet Minister of Agriculture Valentin Mesyats will begin a twelve-day tour of the American heartland; aside from Gromyko, no Soviet minister has visited the U.S. since 1979. Last week Pop Singer John Denver embarked on a concert tour of the Soviet Union, the first by an American entertainer in years. When Denver appeared at the U.S. Ambassador's Thanksgiving dinner in Moscow and sang...
SUDDENLY, the showdown is over. The United States and the Soviet Union are carefully, gingerly pulling the knives away from each other's throats and beginning to be civil. They've announced talks between Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to explore "the entire complex of questions concerning nuclear and space weapons." President Reagan's national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, says the United States is prepared to be "flexible and constructive" in these talks. The head of the Soviets' American Department is caught singing. "We're all in this together" at the ambassador...
...meeting grew more cordial when the two discussed the need for better relations. Tikhonov told Shultz he hoped to see him in Moscow soon. "Is that an invitation?" Shultz asked. "That is Foreign Minister Gromyko's job, not mine," Tikhonov replied. "But I presume we will see more of you." It is perhaps as well that the pair did not agree to get together too soon. Three days later, in his first major speech since his Washington visit, Gromyko pointedly referred to Mrs. Gandhi's murder as "a heinous crime" and blasted "the criminal policy of state terrorism...