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- DIED. Andrei Gromyko, 79, dour Soviet diplomat who, as
- Foreign Minister from 1957 to 1985, was the public face of
- Russian inscrutability and intransigence. From 1943, when Stalin
- appointed him (at age 34) Ambassador to Washington, Gromyko was
- an indispensable formulator of Kremlin policy toward the U.S.,
- dealing with nine Presidents. He helped Stalin haggle with
- F.D.R. at Yalta, told John F. Kennedy there were no Soviet
- missiles in Cuba in 1962, and during the Brezhnev era became an
- architect of detente. When anyone referred imprecisely to events
- he had witnessed, Gromyko had an untoppable rejoinder: "I know.
- I was there."
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