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MILESTONES, Page 80
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."