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...seat of the Prussian High Court. Then, seated at a long oak table, each man signed his name no fewer than twelve times. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush welcomed the agreement "as a sign of the Soviet Union's desire to move from confrontation to negotiation." Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov threw out his hands and shouted: "All's well that ends well...
SENSING that a historic agreement could be in the making, small knots of West Berliners began gathering one evening last week at the massive iron gates of the Allied Control Council's palatial headquarters in Kleist Park. Every so often, Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov or one of his aides would slip silently away on a mission to East Berlin-to consult, it was later disclosed, with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had flown in to oversee the crucial final stages of the 17-month-old talks on the future of Berlin. Then, shortly after midnight, the sound...
Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov's pithy reports on the progress of the secret sessions ("What is long is good"; "Where there are roses, there are also thorns") have won him a reputation among newsmen as the leading epigrammarian among the Big Four. At the end of last week's three-day session he said only, "No comment." When Abrasimov is ready to be more specific, it may well indicate that a historic agreement has been struck...
...also indications that the Soviet side was straightening out its signals. After last week's Crimean summit talks, where Berlin was a key topic, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker flew to Moscow. There he conferred with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Ambassador to East Germany Pyotr Abrasimov, the Soviet representative at the Berlin talks...
...number of people, leaving the vast majority of Soviet citizens untouched, but the identity of the protesters is significant. They include not only famed artists like Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich but also scientists such as Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, Physicist Pyotr Kapitsa and Geneticist Zhores Medvedev. A mimeographed bimonthly chronicle of dissident events circulates among thousands, perhaps tens of thousands...