Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lyndon Johnson used his eyeball-to-eyeball technique on Alexei Kosygin at Glassboro in 1967. He locked eyes with Kosygin and vowed he would not look away. Minutes passed with neither man bunking. Johnson got a terrible urge for coffee. He walked his fingers across the table until they collided with his cup. He picked it up. Eyes locked. He drank. Eyes locked. He put the cup down. Kosygin looked away. Aha, thought Johnson. He had won. But later that night he confessed to friends, "I don't understand it. I could make any decision I wanted...
...care of a Soviet doctor who specializes in "artificial nutrition." The treatment is said to involve a technique that is used with patients who cannot swallow because they have throat cancer. Regardless of his health, Sakharov is an increasingly troublesome issue for the Soviets. Summed up his stepson Alexei Semyonov in Washington last week: "Sakharov is dangerous because his inward development as a person has led him to a state of freedom and courage...
Although the new program will introduce some changes in the Soviet Union's rigidly centralized economy, it falls well short of the reforms that have made Hungary a model of efficiency by Communist standards. Nor does the policy break new ground when compared with Premier Alexei Kosygin's largely unsuccessful effort to decentralize Soviet industry in the 1960s. It might take years before the changes could be applied outside the factories that were singled out last week. Said a Western diplomat: "Andropov is gently approaching the tricky question of how to decentralize a state-run economy...
Late in the Johnson Administration, at the Glassboro summit, Robert McNamara patiently tried to persuade Premier Alexei Kosygin that it was in the interests of both countries to forswear large-scale antiballistic missile (ABM) defenses, since a defensive arms race would only escalate the offensive one already under way. Each side would feel compelled to increase the number and destructiveness of weapons with which to "penetrate" the defenses of the other. Eventually, in the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) during the first Nixon Administration, the Soviets agreed to limit ABMs...
...Glassboro, N.J., Lyndon Johnson met Alexei Kosygin, one of the reigning triumvirate that replaced Khrushchev. Johnson devised an elaborate form of body language in an effort to convince Kosygin that he was dealing with a tough Texan. L.B.J. gave the Soviet one of his crusher handshakes, then hovered over the shorter Kosygin. Convinced that eye contact was a measure of a man's determination, Johnson locked eyes with Kosygin at one crucial point. Needing a sip of coffee, L.B.J. felt for his cup on the table rather than release his visual grip on Kosygin, who finally blinked and looked...