Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South, until it was recognized in every chancellery and every embassy around the world that the North Vietnamese had committed an act of aggression." When asked about the possibility of conducting negotiations with the Viet Cong, Humphrey pointed out that during his discussions of the war with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in India last January, the Russian "never mentioned the Viet Cong." On the contrary, Humphrey recalled that Kosygin said: "You will have to negotiate this with Hanoi...
Wilson himself was acting more and more like the Compleat Campaigner. He sought to buttress his position on foreign affairs by jetting off to Moscow for talks with the Kremlin's duumvirate, Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev. In three days of conferences, he won a Soviet pledge to consider larger purchases in Britain and a promise that Premier Kosygin would soon pay him an official visit. Though Wilson could report no progress toward settling the Viet Nam war, the fact that he sent his disarmament minister to seek out Hanoi's top man in Moscow would help silence...
...intended achievement. The classic was Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year plan (1959-65), which promised to make Russia a Communist Utopia by 1970, complete with the world's highest standard of living and largest industrial production. Moscow's new leaders are more realistic. Last week Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin unveiled a new five-year plan that takes up where Khrushchev's seven-year plan leaves off. Gone was the old bombast, the exuberance, the phony dreams. And gone-for once-was the promise of Utopia...
Problems Ahead. Thus, into the hands of Nehru's daughter passed the responsibility of guiding the world's second most populous nation. From around the world came congratulatory cables?some 10,000 in all. Pope Paul VI sent his blessing, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin expressed "the Soviet people's deep satisfaction," and Lyndon Johnson sent a warm invitation to keep the date that Shastri had made for a Washington visit?around Feb. 1. Those who wished India well could only rejoice at the smooth transition of power. Though India is a nation of 480 million people speaking 14 major languages...
...hard line with Pakistan that led him ultimately to the Russian city of Tashkent, where, at the invitation of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he met with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan for peace talks to settle the border war. At first the conference stalled on the very issue over which the two nations had warred: Kashmir. The impasse was finally broken by Kosygin, who persuaded the two men to skirt Kashmir and try to settle other problems. It was a considerable diplomatic triumph for Moscow and a major victory for Shastri. Without retreating on Kashmir, he negotiated an agreement...