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...with the masses, they are surrounded by obviously armed bodyguards. The carefully screened crowds are usually made up of selected party and government workers. But assassination attempts are not unknown. In January 1969 a Soviet army lieutenant disguised as a policeman opened fire on Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev as he was being driven to the Kremlin. Brezhnev escaped unharmed, and the would-be assassin was declared deranged and confined to a mental ward...
...Estaing. Moscow may also have been embarrassed by the attention the affair was attracting in the West, where it was being viewed as a test of whether the Soviets intend to live up to the "humanitarian" clauses of the Helsinki declaration signed by Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev last month. One clause of the agreement requires the Soviet Union to "examine favorably and on the basis of humanitarian considerations requests for exit or entry permits" for Soviet citizens and foreigners who want to marry...
...center's Scholars, Ulam and Keenan among them. This year, Toumanoff says, State has accepted a contract extension that will engage about five more scholars on issues like U.S.-Soviet trade, Soviet agriculture and long-range economic thinking, and guesses on Soviet succession (Kremlinology--who's sitting next to Brezhnev at what state dinners...
...planners fouled up again this year. Under intense pressure from Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev to raise more grain for livestock, they set the total grain harvest goal at an overly optimistic level that would have nearly equaled the record 222 million tons achieved in 1973. Even if the present crop reaches only 180 million tons, it still would be the fourth largest Soviet harvest in history. But having allocated so much acreage for grain to be fed to cattle and poultry, Soviet planners now find that they did not have enough left over to comfortably feed the people...
...colonel in the Polish army was the undisputed sports hero of Poland. So great was the country's pride in Pawlowski's prowess that Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek is said to have brought the fencer with him to an informal meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...