Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even in the midst of such intensive action as the Middle East negotiations does Kissinger neglect his other obligations. Aware of the Soviet Union's interest, he penned five personal letters to a concerned Premier Aleksei Kosygin, keeping him up to date on developments. Kissinger also added a couple of new items to his developing handbook of international diplomacy...
...only manner in which détente can be proven is by deeds, not words, and the Soviet Union has not been performing as if détente were here." A recognition that the new relationship was an enveloping issue in the crisis was echoed in Moscow by Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who protested that "the opponents of détente are trying to revive the cold war and cause mistrust in peaceful coexistence by exploiting the hostilities in the Middle East...
...welcome was so warm that about the only thing missing was balalaika music. Astronaut Tom Stafford greeted the Soviet visitors to the Johnson Space Center in his newly acquired (albeit broken) Russian. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov-who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space-promptly returned the linguistic compliment. Asked whether he anticipated any language difficulties when Stafford's Apollo spacecraft and his Soyuz rendezvous and dock in earth orbit in 1975, Leonov broke into a broad grin and said: "No problem English...
...Premier Aleksei Kosygin's 1967 visit to the U.S., during which he met Lyndon Johnson at Glassboro, N.J., was officially to the United Nations...
...After Aleksei Stakhanov. a coal miner who became an early hero of Soviet labor by greatly overfulfilling his production quota...