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...Wednesday, Gromyko planned to spend much of the day-at least four hours and possibly up to eight-with Secretary of State George Shultz at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The Americans wanted to raise a wide variety of regional and bilateral issues during this session, including such disagreeable matters as Soviet aid to antigovernment rebels in El Salvador, Moscow's ties to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official...
...experience in East-West affairs, pointing out that as Senator and Vice President he had three discussions with Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who in all probability viewed his meeting with Mondale mainly as a courtesy gesture, was unlikely to offer anything not already passed on to Shultz. By mutual consent, no communiqué describing either the tone or the content of the meeting was planned...
Gromyko gets a chance to speak his mind to the General Assembly on Thursday. The address had originally been set for Tuesday, before he sat down with either Shultz or Reagan. But after his arrival in New York, Gromyko cagily rescheduled to the later date for "technical reasons." That would give him the option to tone down the expected tough line of the speech if he wanted to respond favorably to Reagan's address or to overtures made by Shultz in private. Most analysts predicted that Gromyko would stick to his original text. "He will probably give...
...conflict. There are thousands of such offspring of U.S. military men still in Viet Nam. Many of these youngsters are outcasts, shunned by their maternal families and living at a barebones subsistence level In an effort to help solve the problem, Secretary of State George Shultz presented to Congress last week a proposal to admit 8,000 so-called Amerasian children to the U.S. over three years. "Because of their undisputed ties to our country, these children and family members are of particular humanitarian concern to the United States," Shultz told a Senate judiciary subcommittee on refugees. He also asked...
Though Hanoi has so far contradicted its vague assurances of cooperation in the new plan with a refusal to provide the names of either prisoners or children, the U.S. is optimistic that an agreement is possible. Informal talks may get under way as early as next week, when both Shultz and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach plan to attend the United Nations General Assembly session in New York City...