Word: gromykoisms
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...various disarmament proposals," and indeed Reagan did repeat his suggestions for elimination of intermediate-range land-based missiles in Europe and a one-third reduction in strategic nuclear warheads deployed by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. But as delegates from 157 nations, including a sour-faced Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, listened in silence, Reagan also launched into a denunciation of Soviet behavior as blistering as any that he used to make on the campaign trail. The President...
...cost the U.S. propaganda points at the U.N. Delegates to the disarmament conference gave the President only a cool round of handclapping after his speech. Said Reagan to aides: "That was a hard audience." In contrast, the delegates had burst into applause two days earlier at one point during Gromyko's address. That demonstration occurred when Gromyko read to the conference a message from U.S.S.R. President Leonid Brezhnev declaring that the Soviet Union "assumes an obligation not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. This obligation shall become effective immediately at the moment it is made public from...
...Soviet-American relations, there is a sense that American policy has recently been reactive to Moscow initiatives. Only three months after your talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, when you declared that Poland cast a long and dark shadow over East-West relations, there is talk about a summit with President Leonid Brezhnev and a rush to engage in arms-control talks...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and I met on July 1, 1974. We had been talking about extremes: either a permanent agreement that caused everyone to protect against every conceivable contingency, or a two-to three-year extension of the 1972 interim agreement, too short a period. Perhaps we should aim for a new agreement that would run for, say, ten years, from 1975 to 1985. Gromyko accepted and the negotiations were placed in a different framework. Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to meet during the winter to implement the new approach...
...offer Israel a U.S. assurance that it would be free to respond if any terrorist attacks did occur on the Golan. That clinched it for the Syrians; at 10:45 p.m. on May 28, they approved the agreement. Assad, who was supposed to have had dinner with Gromyko but had spent the time negotiating instead, now insisted that Kissinger share a late meal with him. When Kissinger protested that he was supposed to be paying a call on Gromyko at that moment, Assad said coolly: "It is all right, you are eating his dinner." Back in Israel, Golda...