Word: konstantin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KONSTANTIN U. CHERNENKO had lain with Soviet gods nary a week when this eminently disposable biography of the Russian Kennedy hurtled headlong towards Gorbachev lovers everywhere...
...saying that a "strong possibility" exists that Gorbachev will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September. There was no word on whether Gorbachev would also meet with President Reagan, who proposed a summit meeting in a letter to Gorbachev following the death of Konstantin Chernenko...
...return to the bargaining table, the U.S. negotiators arrived for the opening 11 a.m. session some twelve minutes late. The reason could scarcely have offended their hosts: the U.S. team had stopped off at another Soviet villa to sign a condolence book set out to mark the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Once the Americans showed up, the four negotiators and their interpreters sat down and talked, behind closed doors, for two hours and 45 minutes. They agreed on at least one point: it would be best not to discuss with reporters anything consequential from preliminary sessions. "Therefore," Kampelman said...
President Gemayel deemed the crisis so serious that he canceled plans to attend the funeral of Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko and began a series of meetings with other Christian leaders, including Maronite Patriarch Antonie Pierre Cardinal Khoraiche. Geagea turned down an invitation to attend. Shortly thereafter, the Syrians began to make their own menacing moves...
...intelligence report, a thick black notebook with gold lettering that is delivered to the Oval Office at 9:30 a.m. every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them...