Word: kosygin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the pyrotechnic efforts by Kosygin to prove that Moscow meets its obligations. "The Soviet Union," he promised at the U.N., "will undertake all measures within its power, both in the United Nations and outside, in order to achieve the elimination of the consequences of aggression...
Duplex Diplomacy. Did he mean it? As at least token proof, Russian-made MIGs?more than 100 of them?have arrived in the U.A.R. and Syria to begin replacing the estimated 400 planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate...
...classic essay in the kind of duplex diplomacy at which the Russians are masters: talking on one level while acting?or failing to act?on another. Despite the noise and despite even the MIGS, the Russians were obviously playing for time. As evidenced at Holly Bush, Kosygin's visit to the U.S. was also at once a holding action and a salvage operation. Longer-range Russian tactics remained unclear?probably to the Russians themselves...
Reality v. Rhetoric. Last week's summiteering, for all its euphoric effect on the U.S. press,* could hardly sway the balance. As the President himself said later: "One meeting does not make a peace." In fact, though Johnson and Kosygin conducted a highly successful first meeting on the personal level?"They enjoyed one another," said one official ?and possibly even eased some of the tensions that had developed since the Middle East went to war June 5, their differences on every critical issue were more clearly etched at Holly Bush than they had been before...
...issued from the U.N. and beclouded world affairs all week. The meeting substituted reality for rhetoric. And it gave two men, astonishingly alike in their experience of power and their awareness of its limitations, an unexampled opportunity to confront and assess one another. Neither Lyndon Johnson nor Aleksei Kosygin has ever won high acclaim as a diplomatist, but their first encounters proved that both men are as equally equipped for such a conference as any two statesmen the two nations have yet fielded simultaneously...