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...next day Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, who was in the U.S. for a visit to the U.N., called on President Reagan at the White House and delivered an invitation from Gorbachev to Reagan for a meeting in Reykjavik. An official on the powerful Central Committee Secretariat, Georgi Kornienko, said in Moscow, "We feel it is important to make progress somewhere, and INF appears to be the only area of opportunity." All indications were that the deal the Soviets had in mind was the interim agreement, not the zero option...
...control overtures like his ban on nuclear testing, the feeling has grown in the Soviet Union that this time he must return from a summit with something more substantial than an autographed picture of Reagan. "We have been saying deeds matter more than words," said Central Committee Member Georgi Kornienko at the recent U.S.-Soviet conference in Riga, Latvia. "We want to see a summit that accomplishes deeds and doesn't just produce more words...
...inner circle of power suggests that U.S.-Soviet relations have become Gorbachev's overriding foreign policy concern. The leading candidates to replace Dobrynin as Ambassador to Washington are Yuli Vorontsov, 56, the Kremlin's suave Ambassador to Paris, and two Deputy Foreign Ministers, Viktor Komplektov, 54, and Georgi Kornienko...
Aside from notetakers and translators, only Nitze, McFarlane and U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman accompanied Shultz to the actual meetings; the Soviet side included Gromyko, Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin, First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko and Arms Negotiator Victor Karpov. From time to time one of the U.S. team, usually McFarlane, entered the bubble, where briefing papers often disappeared under salami sandwiches and coffee cups, to inform the rest of the delegation what was happening. At the end, two veteran Washington antagonists even indulged in some genial clowning before journalists at the Hotel Intercontinental. As Perle waited...
...which they have a big lead over the U.S., for limits on bombers and cruise missiles, in which the U.S. has the edge. "If you don't like the ratios or percentages," the Senators said, "then make your own proposal." Cohen told Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko: "You can call it the Kornienko Plan, I don't care. But don't stay away from the table." Asked by the Soviets whether the build-down proposal was just posturing by the President to win reelection, Democrat Biden stated, "I'm telling you, this is a good...