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...which has a problem of its own-Congress is planning to drop "Disarmament" from its title, so a way must be found to pronounce ACA ("Assa" does not seem right) or have it revert to being simply a set of initials. All of which should be resolved before future high-level arms talks with the Soviets are STARTed...
...State Department spokesman described last week's meeting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as "frank and businesslike," his listeners knew that the session may not have been a love feast, but that some progress had been made. At the first high-level dialogue between the two superpowers in twelve months, and the first for the Reagan Administration, Haig and Gromyko soberly spelled out each nation's grievances with a minimum of posturing and propagandizing. "They were not red-faced," said one senior U.S. official. "There was no name-calling, and there...
...warning seemed to confirm recent Western intelligence assessments that the Soviets had temporarily shelved the idea of military intervention in favor of economic pressures. The presence in Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet trade delgation, headed by Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, made that theory seem all the more credible...
...They were much more together than we were, although they had three of four freshmen on the field," attributing the difference to a lack of high-level competition in practice and in the opening match against hapless...
Begin apparently did not ease U.S. worries about his inflexibility on autonomy issues. Before his arrival in Washington, a State Department official warned that "we will not send a high-level envoy [to the autonomy talks] unless Begin makes us feel it is worthwhile." After the summit talks ended, Haig announced that the U.S. will be represented only by its ambassadors to Israel and Egypt at the first new round of the negotiations. He said the U.S. might elevate its representation if there is progress on the unresolved procedural issues...