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...Kohl's 48-hour visit to Moscow turned out to be a bruising diplomatic skirmish that started badly and ended, as Kohl fully expected, in a standoff. Under a barrage of Soviet threats, Chancellor Kohl stood firm on the one issue that dominated his talks with Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov: West Germany's determination to abide by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization decision to begin deploying U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in December if no progress is achieved in the talks on intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Geneva...
...Soviet; twelve peripatetic New England newspaper editors; Film Director Alan Pakula, who was screening his film Sophie's Choice for Soviet film makers; and eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Me., who was on her way Andropov a youth camp in the Crimea. Samantha had written to Yuri Andropov in April, and he answered with an invitation to visit his country at Soviet expense...
...escu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow this week. Andropov will undoubtedly urge Kohl not to accept deployment of Pershing II missiles on West German soil...
Despite past zigzags, there were indications last week that the Administration was inching toward a thaw in East-West relations. In a letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, congratulating him on his election as President of the U.S.S.R., Reagan wrote: "I hope that together we can find ways to promote peace by reducing the level of armaments." In testimony delivered before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State George Shultz also struck a note of tentative conciliation. "We do not accept as inevitable the prospect of endless, dangerous confrontation with the Soviet Union," he declared. "We now seek...
Painfully, haltingly, the stooped figure moved across the dais of the vast, neoclassical chamber in the Great Kremlin Palace. As the 1,500 delegates of the Supreme Soviet rose to their feet to deliver a tumult of applause, Yuri Andropov's strained face stared ahead without a smile. Hurriedly, the leadership pushed through the session's most important item of business. After an effusive nominating speech by Konstantin Chernenko, Andropov's principal rival on the Politburo, the delegates voted unanimously to confer upon Andropov the ceremonial but authoritative post of President of the Soviet Union...