Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North-South fighting, even if the government in Argentina does not become more accommodating to the Soviets. Both Haig and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym have complained that the U.S.S.R. has been "fishing in troubled waters" with its propaganda attempts to capitalize on the crisis. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, speaking at a Moscow dinner honoring Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said that the South Atlantic confrontation occurred "precisely because there are forces that are trying to preserve or restore their positions of dominance and to impose foreign oppression." In deference to his Marxist guest, Brezhnev did not embrace the junta...
Once again Leonid Brezhnev confounded the doomsayers who had placed him at death's door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers...
Meanwhile the Kremlin's top physician shed some light on Brezhnev's condition. In an exclusive interview with TIME'S Moscow bureau chief, Erik Amfitheatrof, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, 53, scoffed at news stories in the West that Brezhnev had been felled by a stroke. Said the doctor: "He has been buried so many times by the foreign press that I have lost count." Chazov, who heads the medical team that treats all the Kremlin leaders, pointed out that he is bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand...
...watched the parade. The senior Politburo member, who had not been seen in public since Feb. 5, was rumored either to have been struck down by heart by heart disease or to be in disgrace. Kirilenko's appearance on the reviewing stand, two seats away from Brezhnev, revived longstanding speculation that he was next in line to succeed Brezhnev. Kirilenko's rival for the succession, Konstantin Chernenko, 70, who had occupied the pre-eminent place at Brezhnev's right hand during Kirilenko's absence, was also seated at two removes from the President...
...when the Soviet leadership may convene for a Central Committee meeting devoted to the problems of the Soviet economy. According to official Soviet figures, 1982 got off to an inauspiciously slow start. The first quarter showed a dismal growth rate of 2.1%, well below the 4.7% Brezhnev hopes to achieve over the full year...