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...Gromyko's scheduled sessions with the American leaders were very nearly waylaid by a totally unexpected diplomatic incident in the far northern reaches of the remote Bering Sea. There, on Sept. 12, the Frieda K, a 101-ft. supply vessel with five Alaskans on board, accidentally strayed inside Soviet territorial waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched...
...Andrei Gromyko's trip to the U.S. has given new urgency to a task that preoccupies Western experts on Soviet affairs: interpreting the current murky status of the Kremlin leadership. Says a top U.S. analyst in Washington: "We've got to get a better fix on who is running the show. This ignorance could really screw up our decisions...
Those explanations dovetail nicely with the apparent rise in Gromyko's influence. He derives clout from long experience as the Kremlin's top diplomat and a flawless record of cleaving to the collective Politburo line. Says Uri Ra'anan, professor at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "I am astounded at Gromyko's authority. He has absolutely no political power base." Agrees Pipes: "By default, he has moved...
Part of the dead weight on the Politburo is the remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...
...Andrei Gromyko's meeting with President Reagan is to lead to any substantive U.S.-Soviet bargaining on nuclear arms, it presumably would involve reopening in some form two sets of negotiations that broke off in Geneva...