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...Alexei Kosygin...
...When Alexei Kosygin resigned as Soviet Premier last October after more than 40 years of service to the state and the Communist Party, no honors or tributes were bestowed upon the veteran leader. Among the 14 other Politburo members, only Leonid Brezhnev was moved to acknowledge "cordial gratitude" to Kosygin. Even that faint praise came after international surprise over Kosygin's unceremonious exit from power. Last week news of Kosygin's death of a heart attack in the Kremlin hospital was treated in more generous fashion. A day and a half after the event, the Soviet government...
...DIED. Alexei Kosygin, 76, longtime Soviet Premier who with Leonid Brezhnev and Nikolai Podgorny formed the "troika" that wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964; of a heart attack; in Moscow (see WORLD...
Once there were three. After Nikita Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, the mantle of Soviet leadership fell to a power-sharing troika: Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief, Nikolai Podgorny as President, and Alexei Kosygin as Prime Minister. Slowly and then surely, Brezhnev emerged as the dominant figure. In 1977, Podgorny was shunted aside and Brezhnev added the presidency to his other powerful post, relegating Kosygin to a much diminished role. Last week the troika became...
Viet Nam's party boss Le Duan and Premier Pham Van Dong visited Moscow two weeks ago for a meeting with their Soviet counterparts, Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin. Le Duan said that the solidarity of the two allies had given Viet Nam "new great strength" to face its problems, many of which were caused "by collusion between U.S.-led imperialism and Chinese expansionism." Brezhnev responded by agreeing that "China and the U.S. encourage each other in almost everything when it comes to abusing the will of the peoples of Indochina...