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DSR 11C
4.
2.
b.
do you see any risk that if we propose to the
Russians that the Prime Minister should overfly
the Soviet Union with a stopover in Moscow, they
might reject the request?
assuming there were a stopover in Moscow, who
on the Soviet side would be likely to go to the
airport? Would they think in terms of Tikhonov
or Gromyko? Is it reasonable to assume that at
worst, they would send a deputy Prime Minister
(as was originally proposed for the stopover in
1979)?
If Hugh Cortazzi or Percy Cradock had any comments about
the effects on their clients of such a stopover and a possible
meeting for an hour or so between the Prime Minister and say
Tikhonov, they would be welcome.
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