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MOSCOW--Secretary of State George Shultz and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov met today while arms control experts from both sides worked for a possible agreement on removing medium-range missiles from Europe...
...session with Ryzhkov, expected to focus on Soviet economic policy, was scheduled to last about an hour. After a working lunch with his own aides, Shultz was to go to the Kremlin for a meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...debugging experts sent to the Moscow embassy in an effort to prepare secure facilities for the arrival next week of Secretary of State George Shultz are finding so many sophisticated Soviet sensors that the entire communications system may have to be replaced. The once secure "bubble," a shielded room within a room, will have to be rebuilt. Shultz will take special mobile communications gear with...
President Reagan was sufficiently concerned to order two briefings on the case, including a high-level Friday afternoon meeting that included Cabinet members. Shultz did not even wait to consult with Reagan before taking the unprecedented step of shutting down all sensitive electronic communications with the Moscow embassy. U.S. diplomatic posts around the world are now transmitting Moscow-bound traffic to Frankfurt, where select courier teams are on call to hand-carry material to the Soviet capital. Within the embassy, secretaries have been forbidden to use any machine that emits electronic signals, including electric typewriters and word processors. Even...
...arrests come at a particularly awkward time for the State Department. The situation casts a cloud over the upcoming arrival in Moscow of new U.S. Ambassador Jack Matlock. Even worse is the effect on the Shultz trip. A new bubble is being built in the embassy in anticipation of the Secretary's arrival April 13, but communications technicians are not sure that security can be guaranteed...