Word: kosygin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting was attended by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Party Boss Leo nid Brezhnev arrived in Dresden. The confrontation came only days after a Czechoslovak delegation returned home from Moscow with a Kremlin prom ise that the Russians would not in terfere with Dubcek's drive for "so cialist democratization...
...accompanies every meeting. As they gathered last week in Sofia to review the seven-nation War saw military pact, the Soviet bloc's top bosses traded hugs and kisses aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered the busses...
...recommendation to bring in the nukes would have to be approved by President Johnson, and so far he has given no hint that he would approve. Johnson has reportedly assured Russia's Premier Kosygin that the United States won't use nuclear weapons, but the White House has been deliberately cryptic in publicly quelling the rumors that followed Wheeler's statement. When asked about nukes at a press conference, the President would only say that he "was not aware" of any Pentagon request for them...
Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin is a mild-appearing man who, along with present Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, helped overthrow Khrushchev in 1964 because, among other reasons, he was acutely embarrassed by Nicky's high jinks and rocket rattling. An efficient bureaucrat, Kosygin not only involves himself deeply in the Soviet Union's domestic affairs but also directs his country's foreign policy. This week, in an interview in LIFE, he proved that he can be just as tough and unbending as any of his predecessors. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects in a more or less...
...Kosygin was obviously aware of his ultimate audience. He was clearly determined to impress fellow Communists as well as Americans with his toughness-in part, perhaps, to discourage and weaken U.S. resolve over Viet Nam. The toughness is genuine enough; at the same time, the Russian line is often a few shades softer than it sounds in public statements...