Gromyko leads Moscow's tough-talking"peace offensive"
It was his first visit to a Western capital since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, even before the U.S. misadventure in Iran, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe's...
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