During the long, U.S.-orchestrated negotiations that led to the new Sinai agreement between Israel and Egypt, the Soviet Union became, more and more conspicuously, the odd man out in Middle East diplomacy. Now Moscow wants back in. This was the most important message conveyed by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week when he stopped off in Washington for two days of talks with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while enroute to the U.N. General Assembly. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter assesses the Soviet Foreign Minister's Washington visit:...
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