Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good Communist, Premier Aleksei Kosygin could hardly let China fire the only Red missiles against the U.S. over Viet Nam. So last week he turned a friendship rally for Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi into a launching platform for his most violent attack to date on the U.S. involvement...
...bonhomie that pervaded the Grand Ballroom far transcended anything normally inspired by French champagne and Russian caviar. There in France's Moscow embassy stood Charles de Gaulle, smiling benignly and shaking hands. And there stood Premier Aleksei Kosygin, his ample, blonde wife Klavdia on his arm. Mme. Kosygin pointed at her wryly grinning husband and cracked to De Gaulle: 'This one must have given you plenty of headaches these past few days." "Not at all," responded le grand Charles gallantly. "It went well, very well." Then, while Mme. de Gaulle entertained the ladies, De Gaulle took Kosygin...
...ride into Moscow with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny, De Gaulle followed the old Kaluga Road (now Lenin Avenue) down which Napoleon retreated under Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...
...casting their ballots for the unopposed candidates to the 1,517-member Supreme Soviet (Parlia ment). The candidates were prechosen by the Communist Party - and, it would seem, by the voters. Everybody won, and by a margin that added up to a 99.8% endorsement for the government of Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin...
...Soviet admission of its economic woes comes at a time when Party Boss Leonid I. Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin are launching a major attempt to correct the Soviet Union's underlying economic ill: its troubled agricultural system. Though a grain exporter under the Czars, Russia under the commissars is unable even to feed itself; it imported almost as much grain (25 million tons) during the past three years as India and China combined...