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...good meeting" was how a cautious State Department official described the talk between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov in New Delhi. In the first high-level meeting between the two nations since President Reagan's White House get-together with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Septem ber, the two men conferred for 20 minutes at the Soviet embassy, following Indira Gandhi's funeral. Afterward, Shultz said he had relayed U.S. wishes for a "constructive relationship," while Soviet TV reported that Tikhonov had made a plea for "peaceful co-existence...
...death, the So viet news agency TASS reported that Sikh "extremists and spies" had admitted being trained by the CIA. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, also contended that the CIA had stirred up the separatist movement in India. An angry Shultz spent the first half of the meeting with Tikhonov complaining about the news accounts, adding that the U.S. would hold the Soviets responsible if American lives in India were threatened because of the charges...
Great Kremlin Palace. He was flanked by the men of the Politburo's old guard who now wield the most influence behind the scenes: Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 74, and Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 78. But one measure of the shifting alignment of power in the post-Andropov era was the attention paid to Gorbachev, 53. Ever since Andropov's death, there have been indications that Gorbachev was in effect the country's new No. 2 man. The fact that he should be the one to nominate Chernenko for the presidency seemed...
...years and shared the military's concern for discipline and efficiency. The actual explanation may have been far simpler. Andropov's colleagues on the Politburo apparently considered him to be the more qualified of the two. But once Andropov's health began to fail, Ustinov, Tikhonov and Gromyko evidently decided to line up behind Chernenko rather than throw their support to a younger contender whom they considered too inexperienced for the job. It was Tikhonov who eventually nominated Chernenko in the closed Central Committee meeting...
...Grigori Romanov, 61 and Vitali Vorotnikov, 58. One of Chernenko's most pressing tasks will be to find ways of moving men like these into positions of power without threatening the old guard. One possibility is to give one of the "youths" the job of Premier, now held by Tikhonov...