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...Secretary of State George Shultz...
...should be forthcoming promptly. On Tuesday--possibly just as the U.S. nuclear test blast is going off--Anatoli Dobrynin, who is departing after 24 years as Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., is scheduled to call at the White House for a talk with Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz. U.S. officials hope Dobrynin, who is taking up a Kremlin post as a senior adviser to Gorbachev, will be carrying a message that could get private discussions going again after months of what diplomats brand "megaphone diplomacy." Indeed, Dobrynin reportedly has been empowered to set a date for a meeting...
...them to the White House only hours before Soviet television trumpeted them to the world. Meanwhile, U.S. officials complain, the Kremlin has let private contacts dwindle to almost nothing and passed up opportunities for serious talk about more achievable agreements--a ban on chemical weapons, for example. Said Secretary Shultz to reporters flying back with him from a European trip: "We are never going to get anywhere doing things that way. We will get somewhere in our relationship with the Soviets when we are able to have some discussions that are relatively direct and quiet...
Another reason that Reagan has done little to preserve the spirit of Geneva is that on arms control the Administration is as deeply divided as on the day it took office. One faction, encouraged by Shultz, wants to search for negotiable agreements. It is pushing a new argument: if Americans do not perceive some progress on arms control, their willingness to pay the defense bill will diminish. But hard-liners led by the Pentagon's civilian chiefs remain adamantly opposed to any arms limitations and indeed are working to upset one already in existence...
...picture.) The answer, from the ever grand Malcolm Forbes, is a brand-new yacht he discreetly describes as "dramatically restrained, in quiet taste, nothing opulent." At least not for someone who collects million-dollar Faberge eggs for fun. Last week 107 guests, including Secretary of State George Shultz and Chief Justice Warren Burger, came aboard to admire the $5 million, 151-ft. three-decker at the Forbes magazine tycoon's annual boat bash in Washington. The fifth Highlander (No. 4 was put up for sale in January) can cruise at 14 1/2 knots for up to 4,000 miles...