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Nevertheless, this is a time of transition in the Kremlin and a time when American policy and overtures can make a difference. American policy that is, not blustering. As former Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Averell W. Harriman noted last week, this is "a time for caution;" the Soviet leaders will be jockeying amongst each other for position and in the next week or so, the Kremlin will have a new leader. The choices range from younger, more worldly candidates like Mikhail Gorbaschev to the more conservative Konstantin Chernenko and Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister...
RECOVERING. W. Averell Harriman, 92, former Governor of New York and U.S. Ambassador to London and Moscow; from a broken knee suffered when the Democratic Party's elder statesman was knocked over by a wave while walking on the beach; at his house in Barbados...
...November the National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC) is running a full slate of candidates in Boston for mayor, the city council, and the school committee. They are campaigning on a platform that promotes x-ray beam technology, accuses respected U.S. diplomat W. Averill Harriman of being America's "biggest racist," and believes Harvard has a "master plan" to destroy, the city of Boston...
...letterhead. The others were included to convince investors that the firm was connected to Hawaii's old-line, blue-chip Bishops, Baldwins and Dillinghams, which it was not. Says one local businessman: "It was as if he arrived in Manhattan and had a firm called Rockefeller, Harriman, Cabot, Forbes & Roosevelt...
...Gromyko also emphasized the importance of negotiations. U.S. officials interpret the tone of both speeches as yet another hint that the Soviets are keeping the door open in the talks on nuclear arms limitation. Last month Andropov had given that message to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, and last week Soviet television allowed Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to make a rare pitch for the U.S. view (see box). Said a veteran U.S. diplomat who has been holding talks in Moscow on nuclear nonproliferation: "Once we find common ground, it's remarkably easy to talk...