A New Phase

A New Phase?
Romesh Thapar WHAT'S important about the Gromy- ko visit are not the ritualised meetings at which each side does a kind of "non-briefing" but the unrecorded, behind-the-scenes give and take. Of this, the confabulations between Indira Gandhi and Gromyko, with no one else present, are probably the critical element on which commitments will be made. The speculation on what was transacted during those separate meetings will continue for a long time, and every new shading in public posture will be studied to get at the real truth.