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Percy was also given unexpected access to other members of the Soviet leadership's highest echelon: four hours with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and three hours with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. The Illinois Senator had scheduled last week's visit as a private trip before the election. But when the Republicans last month got control of the U.S. Senate, it meant Percy would become head of the Foreign Relations Committee-and thus a man Soviet leaders much wanted to meet...
...U.S.S.R. is not prepared to be a bull in the corrida of Madrid," declared Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. That pronouncement served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
...Kremlin hurled similar warnings at the White House. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko complained to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Watson in Moscow last week that American military activity in the gulf area was a "provocation" and "a threat to peace." Watson assured Gromyko that the U.S. was acting purely defensively and would stay out of the fighting...
...with asking both countries to stop the fighting quickly. If they did not, the Soviets warned, the U.S. would take advantage. "While calling by word of mouth for neutrality in the Iranian-Iraqi conflict," the Soviet news agency TASS said after the New York meeting between Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, "Washington is in fact building up tensions and making a choice between direct interference in the Iranian-Iraqi conflict and the possibility of launching international intervention in case the war between Iran and Iraq jeopardizes oil exports from the Persian Gulf area...
...Administration was in no position to hand him back. One way out of the impasse seemed to be up to the Soviets: if they were to prove eager to clear the air for this week's meeting between Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, it was thought they might allow the hapless defector to go abroad-though not to the U.S. Otherwise, he was likely to remain in the embassy as an uninvited guest for the foreseeable future...