Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left his Administration's reply to Haig, who contended in a midweek speech that any such no-first-use pledge would leave Western Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference in New York in June and confer with each other in the process. That is an uncertain prospect in view of Brezhnev's health, and in any case the Administration has made little progress in working out an agreed-upon strategy for nuclear...
...Haig attacked the proposed freeze for perpetuating "an unstable and unequal military balance" and removing "all Soviet incentive to engage in meaningful arms control." Reagan announced that he would address the U.N. conference on arms control in New York City this June and pointedly proposed that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev join him there for a meeting...
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...statement from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow was brief and to the point: "Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is currently on his routine winter vacation." Never mind that the cold, crisp days of the Russian winter had passed and that the capricious spring weather and thawing snow hardly made for a pleasant vacation. For Kremlin watchers around the world, the announcement provided the first official acknowledgment that the Soviet leader had indeed dropped out of sight. But if it was intended to allay suspicions about his whereabouts, it only increased the questions concerning Brezhnev's disappearance from public view three weeks...
...year-old Soviet leader was last seen in Tashkent as he was about to board a plane that would take him back to Moscow after a four-day visit to Soviet Central Asia. Given the hectic schedule Brezhnev had set for himself, his dazed, almost blank look as he inattentively followed the departure ceremonies did not strike Soviets watching the evening news as unusual. During almost a decade of precarious health, Brezhnev had had such bad days before...