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...visible signs" of any "practical, positive change in U.S. foreign policy," Gromyko complained in a statement to the Soviet 15 news agency TASS, and thus no reason to expect "a turn for the better" in superpower relations. Reagan put git more pungently to aides as Secretary of State George Shultz was escorting Gromyko out of the White House. Said the President: "Now I've learned to speak Russian-Nyet." In a formal briefing for the journalists who jammed the White House Press Room, Shultz reported just one achievement: "We agreed to stay in touch." Shultz pursued the subject...
...Gromyko had made it clear in his harshly worded speech to the U.N. Thursday that Moscow was looking for U.S. concessions before resuming formal bargaining on arms control or, indeed, almost anything else. He clung to that position consistently, though a bit less polemically, in private meetings with Shultz and Reagan's Democratic challenger, Walter Mondale...
...just as skillful an actor as Reagan. Gromyko has in the past reminisced about his warm times in the White House with Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull. But just a few months ago he conducted a cold and programmed shouting match with Secretary of State George Shultz in Madrid over the Korean airline incident...
Later that morning, Bartholomew spoke by telephone with Ronald Reagan. The President had been awakened by his National Security Adviser, Robert McFarlane, and told of the bombing. At 8:30 a.m., McFarlane and Secretary of State George Shultz briefed Reagan at the White House. By then Shultz had asked Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Richard Murphy to proceed to Beirut to lead an investigation of the bombing...
While that thesis will be much debated, it is true that most U.S. embassies in the Middle East are more secure than they were a year ago. Shultz, who is said to be obsessed with the problem, declared last week, "This attack once again reminds us of the importance of the efforts we are taking to combat terrorism...