Not 1 Peace Gesture From U.S.--Soviets

Former ambassador to Washington Anatoly F. Dobrynin accused the United States today of not making a “single gesture of good will” toward the Soviet Union since Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan met in a summit last November.

Dobrynin, now a key adviser to Gorbachev, also called the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as “Star Wars,” a “reckless escape into technology.” He made his charge in a speech to a gathering of scientists.

The speech was reported by the state-run Tass news agency.

While the Soviet Union has put forth “peace proposals of historic importance,” the Reagan Administration has not made a single, however symbolic, gesture of good will” since the Geneva summit, Dobrynin said.

No ‘Unilateral Advantages’

The former dean of the Washington ambassador corps, who served in the United States for 24 years, said Soviet peace proposals “do not pursue the the aims of gaining any unilateral advantages for the Soviet Union.”

Dobrynin said Soviet peace initiatives include a current unilateral ban on nuclear testing and a proposal to reduce conventional arms and armed forces in Europe from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains.

He contended that peace and military parity were threatened by Reagan’s “Star Wars” program and warned that the Soviet Union would respond to the space-based weapons program with an “effective and less costly” program that “could be implemented within a shorter period.”

Arms Race in Space

“We are consistently opposed, however, to the arms race in outer space,” Dobrynin said.

Dobrynin, a secretary of the Central Committee and thought to be in charge of its influential International Department, repeated an “appeal to the American leaders to agree on a ban on nuclear testing.”

Gorbachev two weeks ago reinstituted a unilateral Soviet ban on nuclear testing until Aug. 6, the anniversary date of the American bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.