Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin dispatched three messages in all. Two went to Britain's Harold Wilson and France's Georges Pompidou, requesting them to use their leverage-certainly slight in the case of France-with Washington and Jerusalem to stop the attacks. A third message, meanwhile, was addressed to President Nixon. Although it was brief, it read like a lecture. Kosygin accused Washington of arming and encouraging Israel, and called for the reopening of the becalmed four-power peace talks...