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...news agency TASS, and thus no reason to expect "a turn for the better" in superpower relations. Reagan put git more pungently to aides as Secretary of State George Shultz was escorting Gromyko out of the White House. Said the President: "Now I've learned to speak Russian-Nyet." In a formal briefing for the journalists who jammed the White House Press Room, Shultz reported just one achievement: "We agreed to stay in touch." Shultz pursued the subject in a follow-up meeting with Gromyko Saturday, and his aides said the Soviets expressed willingness to talk more frequently "above...
WHEN SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko walked away from his meeting with Walter Mondale Thursday, the usually poker-faced Soviet nyet-man was smiling...
...Western world had a different opinion of who was responsible. The left-of-center Rome daily La Repubblica summed up the reaction in the bold headline THE HAWKS OF MOSCOW HAVE WON! The West German tabloid Bild carried a similar refrain: HONECKER, NYET! Said a top-ranking U.S. official: "This has got to impress everyone in the East bloc. They all want more autonomy, but the message from Moscow is that there are limits...
There are too many political incentives in this election year for the Administration to give up any prospective dialogue with the Soviets. Some U.S. officials remain cautiously hopeful despite Moscow's near nyet. Said a senior U.S. diplomat: "It was tactical, not decisive. No one here has concluded that the Soviets have decided they do not want to go to Vienna." Nevertheless, said a White House official, "people here are less optimistic than they were before...
...quarter-century have learned to read the lines on Gromyko's face for clues about Soviet moves abroad have noticed that the fleeting smile that he would offer during the halcyon days of détente has turned to a quasipermanent scowl. His lips seem pursed to utter a defiant nyet at a moment's notice. Says a West German official recently returned from Moscow: "His is the first face you see when you arrive and the last face you see when you leave. These days it is not a pleasant face...