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...world is as close to the brink of nuclear war as headlines say, Reagan and Brezhnev are meeting in the wrong place. There's only one spot where the masters of our fate should confer: Hiroshima. Its ghosts might give them pause...
Another important issue concerned the proposed natural gas pipeline that will stretch some 3,000 miles from Siberia through East Germany to Western Europe. The West Germans would like to see Honecker approve the pipeline agreement, which was discussed last month by Schmidt and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Since West Berlin will receive natural gas under the terms of the agreement,the West Germans hope that Honecker's approval of the plan may augur well for future discussion of matters involving West Berlin-a subject that East Germany has often regarded as verboten...
...outlasted most of the rulers who were his contemporaries and governed the world's largest country longer than anyone but Stalin. Yet the private life of Leonid Brezhnev, like that of most Soviet higher-ups, is among the most carefully guarded of state secrets. There are no handy biographical sources in the Soviet Union. When Brezhnev came to power in 1964, Westerners were unable at first to determine even the basic facts. Was his wife named Lyudmila or Victoria? (It is the latter.) Did he have two children or three? (Western sources say three, though Soviet references list only...
...public. This month, however, TASS released several informal photographs of the President, some of them en famille. The portraits-of a seemingly contented, still vigorous man-happen to coincide with the renewal of Soviet-American arms limitation talks in Geneva, but the timing was governed by the approach of Brezhnev's 75th birthday...
...adorn the public album of his private life, he has chosen Galya, 8, his only greatgrandchild. The Brezhnevs' children are Galina, about 50, once married to a circus animal trainer and now the wife of Yuri Churbanov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; Yuri, 48, a Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked...