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There was U.S. Ambassador Albert ("Bud") Sherer strolling arm in arm with Soviet Diplomat, Yuli Vorontsov through the glass and concrete Sava Corference Center outside Belgrade. Both looked as if they had just pulled off some master stroke of detente. As a matter of fact they had. After seven weeks of edgy deliberations to decide the date, duration agenda and procedures for a higher-level conference this autumn, following up the 1975 Helsinki accord, the envoys of 35 nations reached an agreement last week in a surprisingly conciliatory spirit...
Future Goals. Both the West and East blocs of nations seem determined to avoid an open clash on human rights -at least at the preliminary meeting. Still, even setting up that October meeting has its pitfalls. The Soviet team of negotiators in Belgrade-headed by Yuli Vorontsov, a sophisticated, tough-minded diplomat-wants to keep the October meeting relatively short, with a fixed "termination date" before Christmas. The obvious aim: to limit discussion on violations of the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords. In addition, the Russians will press for what they vaguely term "positive criticism" that would stress...
...Washington, Yuly M. Vorontsov, the chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy, was a frequent visitor in the office of State's Sisco. Their exchange amounted, in essence, to the U.S.'s urging the Russians to get the Syrians to withdraw their tanks, while the U.S.S.R. warned the U.S. to stay out and to keep Israel out. Kissinger even attended an official Egyptian social affair on Tuesday night, where Vorontsov loudly demanded to know why the U.S. had not responded to the Soviet note. While enthralled guests stared, Kissinger was overheard to say that there was no need...
Runge's Memoirs. The current clamor began in March in the newsweekly Der Spiegel with a series on the activities of the Soviet KGB. The magazine led off with a detailed account of the espionage activities of Soviet Embassy Counselor Yuri Vorontsov, who had died in a February collision while at the wheel of his black Mercedes 220 in Cologne. Vorontsov, claimed Spiegel, was the KGB boss for West Germany, and it put the finger on Russia's popular press attaché in Bonn, Aleksandr Bogomolov, 46, as Vorontsov's successor. It also made much...