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...Chervov, a member of the Soviet general staff, publicly acknowledged what Western intelligence sources had long known: Soviet forces in Eastern Europe already are armed with short-range nuclear weapons capable of striking up to 70 miles. On the diplomatic front, after a visit by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to East Berlin, the Soviets and the East Germans warned that relations between the two Germanys would suffer "serious damage" once the NATO missiles were installed. Against this chill blast, Reagan sent the protesters a message that fell mainly on deaf ears. Said...
Last weekend Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew to Vienna to meet with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. There were reports that Gromyko asked Genscher to help arrange a summit between the superpowers to help avert a crisis over the missile deployment. The latest Soviet moves appeared to signal an increased willingness in Moscow to push its war of nerves with Washington over the missiles to the crisis point. Said a West European diplomat: "The Soviets are trying to scare the hell out of everyone...
...Reagan response to the airline tragedy first went astray two weeks later on September 16 when the State Department told the Soviet Embassy that Foreign Minister Gromyko could not arrive in the United States on an Aeroflot plane and would have to land at a military airport. Gromyko promptly cancelled his annual address to the General Assembly's opening session and attacked the United States for violating its treaty obligations with the United Nations in an attempt to humiliate unjustly the Soviet Union. Score I for the Soviet propaganda machine, 0 for the Reagan effort...
...failing to overrule the Governors of New York and New Jersey in their desire to prevent Gromyko from landing at Kennedy and Newark International Airports. Reagan opened the Unites States to heavy, and just, criticism. Besides the ethical issue of whether or not the United States is living up to its treaty responsibilities as the United Nations' host (it's not in this case), the decision to harass Gromyko makes for bad politics. It permits other countries, all too eager to find fault with Number One, conclude that the United States is taking unfair advantage of its position...
What's more, the decision serves Soviet interests by giving Gromyko an excuse to get himself off the hook. Gromyko wanted nothing less than to be subjected to a barrage of criticism from the assembled delegates at the United Nations, especially after his hostile reception at the Madrid Conference a week earlier...