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...immediate future than keep communication lines open to the West. Another factor troubling the future of bilateral progress is the uncertain health of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, who has not been seen in public since last August. But there were no suggestions in Gromyko's behavior in Stockholm that he felt constrained by any leadership vacuum in the Kremlin. Said a U.S. diplomat...
...Reagan has more than domestic politics on his mind. His milder message was supposed to set the tone for the meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this week in Stockholm. Both men will be traveling to the Swedish capital to attend the opening ceremonies of the Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. It will be the first time Shultz and Gromyko have met since they exchanged angry words in Madrid last September over the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Their discussions, along with Reagan...
Moscow may not be willing to listen. The official Soviet news agency, TASS, pointedly noted last month "that neither the Stockholm conference nor bilateral contacts can substitute for the Geneva talks, which were disrupted through the fault of the Reagan Administration." Soviet President Yuri Andropov has not made a public appearance in five months, but the Kremlin keeps signaling that he is actively involved in decision making. Last week Andropov sent a message to a visiting delegation of French peace activists urging that "not a single chance should be missed for a return to the path of talks...
With the Geneva talks ruptured, the Stockholm conference has become the focus of hopes for some movement out of the superpower impasse. Under the terms of the final document of the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Stockholm gathering is not even supposed to discuss nuclear arms control. Instead, the estimated 350 delegates from Europe, the U.S. and Canada will discuss ways of reducing the risk of a conventional war in Europe...
During the coming months the NATO allies will push in Stockholm for improvements in the present system, which requires a nation to give notice of military maneuvers of 25,000 troops or more at least 21 days before they begin. The fate of such initiatives may depend on whether the Warsaw Pact nations distract the conference with propaganda blasts against the new NATO missiles or high-sounding but insubstantial "declaratory proposals" against aggression. In a press conference for Europeans last week, Shultz warned against expecting immediate improve ments in Soviet-American relations. "We are prepared for a thaw," he said...