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...first in Helsinki, he appeared nervous and ill at ease. When he entered Finlandia Hall's blue-and-white main auditorium, he looked so diffident that some onlookers mistook him for a diplomatic aide. One who did not make that error was Shultz, who strode purposefully from his front-row seat to shake hands with the Foreign Minister and introduce himself. When a journalist asked Shevardnadze to stop and answer questions, the Foreign Minister shrugged, grinned and replied, "They won't let me," apparently a reference to his aides...
...Shultz devoted the bulk of his 20-minute speech to another familiar topic: U.S. displeasure with Moscow's human rights record. He named 22 Soviet citizens victimized by Moscow over the past decade. Among them were Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, Physicist Yuri Orlov, Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and more obscure citizens like Yuri Balovlenkov, whose "crime" was to marry a U.S. citizen...
Beneath the surface, however, both speeches stressed the need for cooperation by the superpowers. "We will have to obtain peace," said Shevardnadze. "The U.S. and the Soviet Union have an opportunity to help build a more secure world," said Shultz...
...next day, during his private meeting with Shultz at the U.S. embassy residence, Shevardnadze was accompanied by Anatoli Dobrynin, longtime Soviet Ambassador to Washington, and several other aides. (Later it was learned that Dobrynin will soon leave his post in Washington, where he has been Ambassador for the past 23 years, to become one of Shevardnadze's top deputies in Moscow...
Once seated across the table from Shultz, Shevardnadze visibly relaxed. Both men were aided by an innovation for such talks, simultaneous translation. As a result, Shultz said later, "we accomplished in three hours what would have otherwise taken...