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Baker's OAS speech got Moscow's attention, and Pavlov flew to Washington for an emergency consultation. Tempers cooled, but only briefly. The worst was about to happen...
...also asked that Gorbachev pressure Castro: We want a "Soviet commitment to reduce Cuban military and economic assistance as necessary to ensure that Cuba does not increase ((the)) flow of lethal weapons to Nicaragua and to ensure that Cuba does not rearm the F.M.L.N." "Baker called his demarche 'requests,' " Pavlov remembers, "but they were really demands. Malta had taken place as scheduled, but we believed quite seriously that the course of U.S.-Soviet relations was in jeopardy...
...days, the Vladimir Ilyich, with its cargo of Soviet helicopters, was called home to Leningrad. Shortly thereafter, Moscow denied a Sandinista request for emergency funds. "They wanted money to put consumer goods in the stores, so they could portray the economic situation as improving and attract voter support," says Pavlov. "We didn't think it was a good investment...
...Baker and Shevardnadze pledged both nations would "respect the results of free and fair elections." But the U.S. had another concern. Washington questioned whether the Sandinistas would actually transfer power if they lost. Aronson asked if the Soviets would continue denying weapons to the Sandinistas if Violeta Chamorro won. Pavlov said...
...that Bernie Aronson knew about Yuri Pavlov before they met last June had been gleaned from the transcripts of Pavlov's meetings with Elliott Abrams, Aronson's predecessor as State's top Latin American hand. In keeping with the nature of Soviet-American relations during the Reagan era, the Pavlov-Abrams sessions were contentious and polemical. Aronson feared he would confront a tough hard-liner -- and Pavlov felt the same way. Instead, each found a kindred spirit. If Pavlov were an American, he would probably be a liberal Democrat. The two diplomats now describe themselves as friends, and Aronson...