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Officially the Administration appeared willing to accept Andropov's overtures as a tentative thaw in East-West tensions. If Moscow was ready "to take concrete steps" to improve relations, said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg, it would find "a ready partner" in the Reagan Administration...
...anticipation of the 1973 war. But the danger is that it will be like 1967, when there was no real intent to go to war, but tensions rose and rose to the point where no one could find a way to back down." Declared State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg last week: "We have repeatedly noted that with Israeli and Syrian forces juxtaposed in a tense situation, there is the persistent threat of renewed hostilities...
...latest Vietnamese assault has forced 45,000 Kampuchean civilians who live in camps along the 450-mile border with Thailand to flee across the frontier; according to some reports, 90 people have been killed and 300 wounded. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We are appalled that Vietnamese forces indiscriminately attacked settlements containing thousands of civilians." The U.S. has already sent an emergency grant of $1.5 million to the Red Cross, and last week it announced that it would immediately begin airlifting into Thailand a number of Redeye antiaircraft missiles, followed by new 155-mm extended-range howitzers...
...counted on any other reaction on our part." But unwilling to let the Soviets monopolize European attention even for 24 hours, the U.S. State Department began composing a point-by-point rebuttal as telex machines were still chattering out the transcript of Gromyko's press conference. Spokesman Alan Romberg handed out the official American response at midday Saturday, in time for it to share evening TV news programs in Western Europe with tapes of the Soviet Foreign Minister's performance...
...Post report that Assistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Enders, chief architect of the State Department's policy toward El Salvador, had recommended to the National Security Council that negotiations with the guerrillas get under way. The Post report was quickly disavowed, however, by State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg. Said Romberg: "We oppose negotiations over power sharing." Despite that denial, signs pointed to another round of political infighting over El Salvador...