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When Shevardnadze arrived at the Stalin-gothic Foreign Ministry on Smolensky Square, he treated it as a candidate for cleanup. After 28 years under the proprietorship of dour-visaged Andrei Gromyko, the ministry badly needed perestroika and glasnost. Within a year Shevardnadze replaced nine of the 12 deputy ministers, instituted a daily press briefing, and created departments for disarmament and economic relations with the West...
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, the Foreign Minister, was in New York City at a United Nations session. He was invited by Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Washington. Our position was neither to confirm nor to deny the presence of missiles, but in answer to a direct question, we would deny. Later we were accused of perfidy and dishonesty. Look who was making this accusation -- the U.S., which had us encircled with its own military bases! We were just copying the methods used by our adversaries. Besides, we had both a legal and moral right to make an agreement with Cuba...
Rusk told Gromyko, "We know everything...
...Gromyko answered like a Gypsy who's been caught stealing a horse: "It's not me, and it's not my horse. I don't know anything...
Pavlov nonetheless made good grades and was admitted to Moscow's prestigious Institute for International Relations. He joined the Soviet foreign service in 1954. "The Gromyko years were drudgery," says Pavlov. "The ministry was unimaginative and dictatorial. With Shevardnadze, it is a constant intellectual debate. He is a pleasure to work...