Word: brezhnevs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arbatov and his staff of thoroughly modern Marxists earn their keep by producing position papers for Soviet policymakers and servicing Soviet technocrats' curiosity about the management techniques of U.S. business and industry. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev is thought to have relied heavily on institute position papers and briefings when he prepared to meet Richard Nixon at the Moscow summit. The institute has published a book on American research and development as well as reports on such subjects as "The Container Revolution in Transport," "Agricultural Research in the U.S.A.," and "Psychology and Cybernetics...
...Soviet elite has been conspicuously represented among the journal's contributors as well as among its subscribers. Former President Anastas Mikoyan's son Sergei, Premier Aleksei Kosygin's daughter Lyudmila Gvishiani, Brezhnev's daughter Galina, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son Anatoly have all written on American affairs for the institute. A frequent contributor himself, Arbatov may write an article on the 1972 election, based on his upcoming trip...
...press conference last week, Nixon pointedly linked the new programs to his dealing with the Soviets on SALT. The U.S. would go ahead with the programs, Nixon said, because "Mr. Brezhnev made it very clear that he intended to go forward" with a Soviet weapons program. Congress was not of a mind to get in the President's way. The House overwhelmingly voted a $21.3 billion military-appropriations bill that included funds for work on the B-l and the Trident. At week's end the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a similar bill...
...Only the ABM treaty requires formal ratification by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. The missile freeze, technically an executive agreement between Nixon and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, is already in force although Nixon has asked for majority approval of both houses...
...Kremlin leaders have their dachas within the same compound. The most prominent dachnik, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, has a weekend getaway spot near Barvikha, where he entertained Richard Nixon during the Moscow summit meetings. Former President Anastas Mikoyan has retired to Zubalovo, an estate surrounding a manor house decorated with marble statues, tapestries and stained glass. In czarist times it belonged to an oil millionaire; Joseph Stalin later expropriated the estate and included one of its mansions among his nine dachas around Moscow and in his native Georgia...