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tary of State George Shultz stayed during his meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, is a regular setting for OPEC meetings. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani maintains a pied-a-terre there. Manager Herbert Schotte, who transformed the 18th-floor restaurant into a four-room, $1,430-a- night royal suite, complete with Chinese dining room furniture, now describes it as "all ready to receive President Reagan if they ever decide on a summit here...
...meeting between Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, the Soviets agreed to a broader agenda. In addition to addressing the Star Wars issue, the new arms negotiations will reopen the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), which centered on Europe-based nuclear missiles. While not ruling out Star Wars as a matter for discussion, Reagan has said publicly that it is not a bargaining chip to be traded away for progress on other issues. That is an understandable stipulation: whether or not Reagan would be willing to negotiate Star Wars...
...Papandreou, any glimmer of improved Soviet-Greek ties is an important bargaining chip in his jousting with Washington. Yet the Soviets were cautious in dealing with Papandreou. After meeting with him in Moscow, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Greece's positions on disarmament were close to the Soviet Union's, but they refrained from harsh attacks on the U.S. or NATO. So, for once, did Papandreou. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets have behaved quite subtly. They're hoping to exploit Greece's differences with its allies, but they know if they push...
...offer made by Reagan last September in his address to the U.N. General Assembly for U.S. envoys to confer periodically with their Soviet counterparts about various crisis regions around the world. The President reiterated this proposal during a White House meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko four days later. The U.S. side in Vienna will be led by Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; the U.S.S.R. delegation will be headed by his equivalent in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Polyakov. These meetings consist primarily of dry recitations of each side...
...personal reward for being Gromyko's adviser was that I became a member of the nomenklatura hierarchy. This is a list of the most important posts in the party, government administration and other institutions. These positions are filled by direct party appointment or with party approval. Nomenklatura is a caste system that applies only to the elite class. Its many levels enjoy varying degrees of privilege according to rank. For Politburo members there is no limit or restriction on privileges. Below this level the grading structure begins. The Central Committee defines the place of anyone eligible for inclusion...