Word: brezhnevs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...
First, there were some personal differences to mend: this was Kama's first meeting with Brezhnev since the Kremlin's June 5 letter blasting the Polish leader for being soft on "counterrevolution." Then Kania had some explanations to give about last month's party congress in Warsaw-an unprecedented session that democratized the party's structure and purged much of its leadership. Most urgent of all was what to do about the latest wave of strikes and demonstrations sparked by Poland's critical food shortage...
...criticize the U.S. decision to make the neutron bomb looks for its inspiration to an old familiar figure who is happily playing a new role. Willy Brandt, 67, is suddenly back in the news, both at home and abroad-going to the Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should the growing opposition...
Schmidt was privately irritated when Brandt took it upon himself to travel to Moscow in June to discuss the missile issue directly with Soviet President Brezhnev. Upon his return, he spoke well of the so-called zero solution to disarmament, a proposal to have the U.S. agree not to deploy any new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe while requiring the Soviets only to begin negotiations about the removal of the 250 SS-20s already in place...
...government's decision last month to raise food prices by over 300% and cut meat rations by 20%. The Soviet press was rumbling again about the dangerous unrest in Poland. And Party Boss Stanislaw Kania was reported to be packing his bags for a possible meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the Soviet President's Crimean resort. At week's end, the government declared it would not pay workers who had struck, and the trade union Solidarity called for a temporary halt to the protests until its leaders could assess the situation...