Word: korniyenko
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...more dangerous and uncertain the game becomes on The Blue X Conspiracy, the more cautious the players turn on both sides. When word reaches the Soviets that the Afghan mujahedin rebels, backed by the U.S., have attacked the key Afghan air base at Bagram with chemical weapons, Georgi Korniyenko, a retired Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime aide to Andrei Gromyko, warns his colleagues not to "jump to the conclusion that this step was sanctioned by the highest leadership of the U.S. Administration...
Justified though each of these actions may seem to many Americans, in Soviet eyes they appear to constitute a coordinated campaign of hostility. "We look upon these actions as defiant and provocative, contrary to the spirit of Geneva," said Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko in Moscow. In an interview with an Algerian weekly, Gorbachev complained that the Geneva summit "half opened the door to hope, but this ray of light so frightened the people associated with the U.S. military-industrial complex that they threw their weight against the door to slam it shut." As one Soviet official exploded...
...York on Sept. 26 and call at the White House two days later. In late August the Soviets accepted. The two countries decided jointly that they would not announce the visit until after Shultz and Gromyko had met. But, for unspecified reasons, First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko chose to proclaim Moscow's intentions on U.S. television...
...Vice President Gordon Manning: "We regard Soviet-American relations as the most important campaign issue." Last week the programs, collectively called The New Cold War, got off to an attention-getting start: during a live interview with Soviet military Chief of Staff Sergei Akhromeyev and Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko, Today Anchor Bryant Gumbel asked whether Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would accept an invitation to meet with President Reagan. It appeared that the Soviets, who had welcomed NBC'S visit, took the opportunity to give the series a calculated boost. Korniyenko's headline-making reply: "There will...
...will soon resume the INF talks on Reagan's terms, namely by accepting deployment of some new U.S. missiles in Western Europe. Moscow scoffs at the idea of a merger for precisely the opposite reason. "One can only merge something that really exists," says First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko...