Word: kosygin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banners adorned public buildings, guns boomed, and thousands thrilled at the sight of "enemy forces" being put to rout in mock battles. The occasion was the first anniversary of the outbreak of the border war with India-a conflict in which the shooting stopped only after Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin brought the two foes together at Tashkent last January...
...with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, according to diplomats, flew to the Black Sea, after a two-day layover in Peking, to meet vacationing Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The presence of the Hanoi leaders was never formally acknowledged by the Russians, and just what happened behind the guarded gates of the vacation villa is, of course, a matter for speculation...
Thus was dissipated a wave of speculation about the possible retirement of the dry, dour Kosygin, regarded as a leading exponent of reform at home and restraint abroad. In recent months, Kremlinologists have professed to divine signs that the 62-year-old Premier might be in failing health and weary of the job. Instead, Kosygin was unanimously re-elected by the delegates on the first day, along with some of the other members of the collective leadership that took over from Nikita Khrushchev almost two years ago: among them President Nikolai Podgorny and First Deputy Premiers Kyrill Mazurov and Dmitry...
Delay & "Democracy." Nor was there any hint of change in Soviet policies. The session rubber-stamped a proposal originally made by Brezhnev that the regime be "democratized" by increasing the number of the Supreme Soviet's standing committees from three to nine-which in substance meant nothing. Kosygin revealed no fresh policy to cope with Russia's lagging economy; instead, he disclosed that the new five-year plan, scheduled to have gone into effect last January, was still not ready, possibly because of wrangles over a new pricing structure designed to permit limited fluctuation in response to supply...
...Hands. On Viet Nam, the Kremlin leader boasted that Russia "is rendering the gallant Vietnamese people steadily increasing economic and military, material and moral support," ritually vowed that the Soviet "will do everything in its power to help drive out the American invaders." But Kosygin added that Russia stands ready to "traverse our part of the road toward mutual understanding" and "will not be taken in by the provocations of those who would like to warm their hands over the hot beds of international tension"-which seemed aimed less at the U.S. than at Red China...