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...State Department's seventh floor. As Shevardnadze walked by, Pavlov introduced him to Aronson. For the first time in two days, Shevardnadze's smile did not seem forced. "You two," said Shevardnadze, "are the only ones who seem to have accomplished anything." "A lot of ^ that is due to Yuri's candor and professionalism," said Aronson, "and I really think that what we have done in Central America has affected the whole relationship for the better." Said Shevardnadze: "We are learning." "So are we," Aronson replied...
...improved superpower relations," he said. "We did, however, believe that Central America is especially important because conservatives consider the region as a litmus test of a President's toughness." This led Moscow to misinterpret Bush's opening. "Who was Bush but Reagan's man?" says Yuri Pavlov, the Soviet's top Latin America policy assistant. "That's how we incorrectly looked at it at the beginning, before we really engaged. So the prospect of the contras fighting again seemed to us very real...
...south, to the area of his responsibility. Instead, he flew east, to Moscow. Aronson's destination conformed to the Administration's strategy and signaled respect: the U.S. was serious about engaging the Soviets in Central America. On June 20 at 10:10 a.m. Aronson and his Soviet counterpart, Yuri Pavlov, sat across from each other for the first time at a long conference table at a Soviet Foreign Ministry guesthouse in Moscow. The initial session went better than Washington could ever have imagined. Both Aronson and Pavlov appeared intent on solving problems rather than scoring points. Each clearly spoke with...
...cache had been manufactured in the Soviet Union, and the van's driver admitted having run munitions from Nicaragua to El Salvador on numerous occasions during 1989. "We knew about many previous shipments," says Aronson, "but this was a smoking gun." Summoned to the State Department, Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin was presented with a packet of evidence. Shevardnadze's Oct. 30 reply infuriated Baker. The minister rambled on about the contras and dismissed Washington's evidence as providing "no grounds for accusing the Sandinista leadership of violating its commitment to end assistance to rebel movements." To Dubinin, who delivered...
...that Bernie Aronson knew about Yuri Pavlov before they met last June had been gleaned from the transcripts of Pavlov's meetings with Elliott Abrams, Aronson's predecessor as State's top Latin American hand. In keeping with the nature of Soviet-American relations during the Reagan era, the Pavlov-Abrams sessions were contentious and polemical. Aronson feared he would confront a tough hard-liner -- and Pavlov felt the same way. Instead, each found a kindred spirit. If Pavlov were an American, he would probably be a liberal Democrat. The two diplomats now describe themselves as friends, and Aronson...