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...Reagan decides to elaborate on the umbrella proposal, he can be certain that Anatoli Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., will be listening intently. During a reception last week marking the U.S. publication of a book by Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet-American Relations, the wily Dobrynin engaged U.S. reporters in some cheerful but newsworthy badinage. "You have introduced something new in the history of Soviet-American relations, the umbrella," he said. "What is it?" Then, referring to the British term for raincoat, he joked, "A mackintosh we can understand, but this must be studied...
...vision and humanity. For my part, I shall feel greatly the loss of a wise colleague and a personal friend." Pope John Paul II said that her death provoked "universal horror and dismay." In Moscow, which has had consistently friendly relations with Mrs. Gandhi over the years, General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko praised her as "a fiery fighter for peace" and "a great friend of the Soviet Union." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman was sitting in Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's office when the news of Mrs. Gandhi's death arrived. Hartman remarked that the two superpowers should...
...problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. And all you have to do for a summit is ring up the Kremlin and say, "Hey, Konstantin, let's get together next week in Geneva...
...Reagan is the winner next week, those deficits are going to be just as big and bad as they ever were. If Walter Mondale comes out on top, he may find that the Soviets aren't as eager for a summit as he is-or that Soviet Boss Konstantin Chernenko has checked into a Moscow hospital...
Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko glanced up at gray, glowering skies as he stepped out of his limousine at the Kremlin last week for a special plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee. The weather must have been very much on his mind. For the sixth consecutive year, the Soviet climate had played havoc with grain crops. The yield, according to Western estimates, was expected to measure only 170 million metric tons, well below the 220 million metric tons needed for annual consumption...