Word: toon
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Middlebury College Malcolm Toon, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union...
Jimmy Carter's personal letter of anniversary congratulations was handed to Brezhnev by U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon during a friendly, hour-long chat last week in the Kremlin. Brezhnev told Toon that there was "a definite change for the better in relations" between the two countries, but he emphasized "the urgency of finalizing" a SALT accord. Indeed, that message was underscored by the anniversary's military parade, which showed that however hopefully the Soviets talk about world peace, they are amply prepared for other eventualities...
...regard Dobrynin, who has been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon as a conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made compromises, Moscow seemed to bend the most. The U.S. had already dribbled out many of its concessions during the past nine...
...Toon also became involved in another U.S.-Soviet tiff. Russia's television network refused to broadcast the ambassador's July 4 address to the Soviet people, an annual event since 1974, because he would not delete a passage that said, "Americans will continue to state publicly their belief in human rights and their hope that violations of these rights, wherever they may occur, will end." Unwisely, Toon had not cleared his text with Washington...
...Carter sees it, the Kremlin, while waging a propaganda battle with the U.S., continues to pursue the fundamental Soviet interest in SALT and détente. Brezhnev's letter and his dressing down of Toon were "decidedly less strong than the Tass account of the affair," noted a top White House aide. Besides, Brezhnev's meeting with Toon had its constructive side. TIME has learned that Brezhnev had put off meeting with Toon, who is perceived as a hardliner, despite Toon's repeated requests for a meeting after he arrived in Moscow last December; the Kremlin boss...