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...little substantive experience in geopolitics. No-nonsense Secretary of State Shultz is the workhorse of U.S. diplomacy, but he does not always seem entirely sure to what end. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger knows precisely what he wants--a massive military buildup--and making deals with the Kremlin is not his idea of the way to achieve it. McFarlane, Regan and Shultz have ganged up to keep Weinberger back in Washington next week and away from the summit. But even in absentia, Weinberger may have more influence on Reagan than the other three combined...
Western TV viewers are already familiar with Georgi Arbatov, 62, in his role as a Kremlin analyst of U.S.-Soviet relations. As the longtime head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, an arm of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Arbatov has turned the institute, as well as himself, into an active formulator of policy as well as an academic source of information. Although his writings reflect a yearning to return to the détente of the early 1970s, he rarely deviates from the official Soviet line. His stiff criticism...
Another hardy survivor of Kremlin politics is Leonid Zamyatin, 63, a representative to the press who has served five Soviet leaders dating back to Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. He has headed the Communist Party's International Information Department since 1978, a job that makes him the General Secretary's top spokesman. After Gorbachev ascended to power, Zamyatin was rumored to be out of favor, but he has reappeared on the job in a dramatic way, managing the spectacular presummit public relations blitz that has put the Soviets in good position for the Geneva meeting...
...been a team at superpower arms talks since 1982, but U.S. observers have recently spotted below-the-surface tension between the two. Karpov, the chief negotiator at the Geneva arms talks, is a bluff, methodical diplomat, a protégé of Gromyko's with ties to the military and the Kremlin Old Guard. Kvitsinsky, who runs the subordinate space-weapons talks, is closer to the upwardly mobile Soviet technocrats who are being promoted by Gorbachev. While Karpov played a prominent role in hammering out both the SALT I and SALT II arms agreements, Kvitsinsky is now regarded by some Western diplomats...
...Identified initially as the fifth-highest official in the KGB, Yurchenko was touted as the most important catch in decades and a striking example of how Moscow's finest have grown disillusioned with the Soviet system. If CIA officials were to be believed, Yurchenko's defection had jolted the Kremlin...