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...surprising acceptance came after a yearlong effort by some members of the Administration to soften Reagan's confrontational approach. On Jan. 16, Reagan offered an olive branch to the Soviet Union in the form of a conciliatory foreign policy address. A few days later, Secretary of State George Shultz met with Gromyko in Stockholm to feel out the Soviets' receptivity to a more flexible strategic missile-limitation plan. The meeting was unproductive. Worse still, the Kremlin kept up a steady drumbeat of harsh anti-Reagan rhetoric...
...custom of inviting the Soviet Foreign Minister to Washington during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. (The tradition lapsed in 1979, when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan soured relations with the U.S.) Reagan agreed to the visit and authorized the State Department to invite Gromyko to meet with Shultz in New York on Sept. 26 and call at the White House two days later. In late August the Soviets accepted. The two countries decided jointly that they would not announce the visit until after Shultz and Gromyko had met. But, for unspecified reasons, First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko...
Relations between Washington and Ottawa have actually been improving since 1982, when Secretary of State George Shultz started holding bilateral talks with Foreign Minister Allan MacEachen every three months. Colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1950s, the two men enjoyed an excellent rapport that quickly trickled down through their respective bureaucracies. "We got energized knowing that our bosses were looking over our shoulders," says a U.S. diplomat. The meetings focused primarily on trade and economic issues; though Mulroney has not yet named MacEachen's successor, both U.S. and Canadian officials expect trade barriers to fall...
...daughter had eloped with a roué, leaving her parents bewildered and angry. So it was that Ahmed Reda Guedira, a royal counselor to King Hassan II of Morocco, faced a decidedly frosty reception in Washington last week when he visited Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and other Administration officials. A month ago the conservative Hassan, long a staunch U.S. ally, had suddenly initiated a treaty of friendship with Libya's radical strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1. Officially the State Department admitted to being "surprised" by the improbable marriage...
...Since Shultz's visit, the U.S. representative at the talks has been Ambassador Harry Shlaudeman, a highly regarded career diplomat. Shlaudeman has held four meetings with his opposite number, Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco: three in Manzanillo and a fourth at a motel on the outskirts of Atlanta. As a sign of good faith, both sides have remained determinedly close-mouthed about the discussions. U.S. diplomats in Washington, however, have revealed that only two of the meetings were spent on minor procedural issues. Says a U.S. official: "There has been no grandstanding or stalling. The talks moved...