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...Soviets to renew the frozen East-West dialogue. The Kremlin used Mitterrand's visit to reject U.S. President Ronald Reagan's offer, made at a press conference one week earlier, to meet with Chernenko. At the end of Mitterrand's first full day, Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin declared that "there has been no change in the American position that would make a summit meeting a real and concrete possibility...
Asked about Sakharov, the Nobel Peace prizewinner whose fate has been a mystery since he reportedly began a hunger strike May 2, Zamyatin grew red in the face. "You have 2 million unemployed!" he lectured American correspondents. "Academician Sakharov works. He has a wage of $1,125 a month. He lives well, he eats well, and he is all right in all respects...
...Soviets also were trying last week to depict themselves as conciliatory. At a press conference eleven hours before Reagan's, chief Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin raised similar hopes for a summit. "We want to have negotiations with the U.S. on a whole complex of issues," he said. But like Reagan, he did not drop the condition that the agenda be carefully worked out beforehand. Also like Reagan, he was primarily concerned with imagery. Neither side wants to be seen by the rest of the world as outrageously bellicose; each accuses the other of being the intransigent party. Reagan said...
...force. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Soviets do continue to discuss grain trading, ways to upgrade the "hot line," and how to deal with incidents between their navies at sea. No progress has been made on the crucial negotiations to reduce nuclear arms, but it is significant that Zamyatin did not declare as a precondition to a summit that the U.S. remove its missiles from Europe (the Soviets broke off the intermediate-range arms talks when the U.S. deployed its Pershing Us). It is equally noteworthy that Reagan did not insist that the Soviets return to the arms talks before...
Diplomats who have been watching the convoy believe that Andropov now spends mornings at his Kremlin desk, then relaxes for part of each afternoon. At about 5:30 p.m., the motorcade dashes back down Kalinin Prospect, possibly taking Andropov to his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow. Zamyatin sought to reinforce such speculation when he mentioned, during the Moscow press conference, that Andropov "concerns himself in full with party and state affairs...