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Nation: No Sudden Cloudbursts

Gromyko's View on SALT

Trials? What trials?" said Soviet I Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, cupping his ear as if he did not understand the reporter's question. "I don't want to speak of these things." His American counterpart, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, when asked about the effect the trials of two Soviet dissidents would have on the scheduled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, was more direct. Without even cupping an ear, he strode away quickly to a waiting car.

Vance knew that his two days of bargaining with Gromyko in Geneva would be sensitive. He...

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