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...years in office. Since he speaks English fluently, he did not ask to have Shultz's remarks translated, but he did reply in Russian. As they sat in U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's office for their three-hour meeting, Gromyko gave a grim assessment of Soviet-American relations. Shultz, in turn, pressed Gromyko on Moscow's intervention in Poland, Afghanistan and Cambodia, and on use of biological and chemical weapons. The conference produced few concrete results; the main accomplishment was keeping businesslike discussions alive and agreeing to meet again this week...
...hero of the Canadian episode was a Soviet satellite named, in Moscow's prosaic nomenclature, Cosmos 1,383. Launched last June, it was the first spacecraft in the Soviet COSPAS (an acronym for cooperation in space) series. Under discussion since 1975, when Soviet-American cooperation in space was at its apogee with the Apollo-Soyuz linkup, the SARSAT idea is virtually the last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language...
...part this was secret diplomacy, including a secret assurance. Any failure to make good on that assurance would obviously have had damaging effects on Soviet-American relations. But it is of critical importance here that the President gave no assurance that went beyond his own presidential powers; in particular he made no commitment that required congressional approval or even support. The decision that the missiles in Turkey should be removed was one that the President had full and unquestioned authority to make and execute...
...assess the current state of Soviet-American affairs, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had a two-hour interview in Moscow last week with Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and Brezhnev's principal spokesman. Zamyatin harshly and predictably attacked U.S. policy in the Middle East, criticized Reagan's position on strategic arms negotiations and decried the use offeree - as if the Soviets did not use it when it suited them. But in addition to the familiar Soviet positions, Zamyatin also sent a number of potentially hopeful signals. He indicated that...
...page headlines in the New York Times just as Ronald Reagan was embarking on a European tour designed to reassure allies who are concerned about the danger of an atomic showdown and Reagan's hawkish instincts. The disclosures undercut a Memorial Day announcement about the beginning of new Soviet-American arms-control talks and served as an unwelcome counterpoint to a sobering report by an international commission on disarmament...