Word: chazov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile the Kremlin's top physician shed some light on Brezhnev's condition. In an exclusive interview with TIME'S Moscow bureau chief, Erik Amfitheatrof, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, 53, scoffed at news stories in the West that Brezhnev had been felled by a stroke. Said the doctor: "He has been buried so many times by the foreign press that I have lost count." Chazov, who heads the medical team that treats all the Kremlin leaders, pointed out that he is bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand...
...Another Chazov patient who made a surprise May Day reappearance was Andrei Kirilenko, 75, who looked fit and vigorous as he watched the parade. The senior Politburo member, who had not been seen in public since Feb. 5, was rumored either to have been struck down by heart by heart disease or to be in disgrace. Kirilenko's appearance on the reviewing stand, two seats away from Brezhnev, revived longstanding speculation that he was next in line to succeed Brezhnev. Kirilenko's rival for the succession, Konstantin Chernenko, 70, who had occupied the pre-eminent place at Brezhnev...
...Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled a trip to England, where he was to attend a meeting of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear...
Harvard doctors have participated prominently in the two-year-old alliance, which claims to represent 30,000 physicians world-wide. The group started with an exchange of letters between Dr. Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology at the School of Public Health (SPH), and Soviet physician Dr. Eugene Chazov...
During the conference, the doctors drafted letters to both President Ronald Reagan and Brezhnev voicing IPPWN's concerns. Chazov, the organization's main Soviet link, co-chaired the conference with Lown, and joined the American doctors in calling "limited" nuclear war an illusion and criticizing those "military, public fuctionaries and even scientists" who perpetuate the illusion...