Word: kosygin
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Question of Veracity. In Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko warned that the time had passed when "encroachments on the independence and freedom of peoples can go un punished." Perhaps more significant, Premier Aleksei Kosygin called the first press conference held by a Kremlin leader in Moscow since Nikita Khrushchev's famous U-2 spy-plane disclosure in 1960. Though he made no suggestion of direct Soviet involvement in Indochina, Kosygin harshly upbraided the U.S. and launched the sharpest personal attack on Nixon to date by a Russian leader. The Soviet Premier, whose appearance was carried live on Russian...
Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin said that the U. S. S. R. would re-examine its aid commitments to North Vietnam as a result of the U. S. invasion. The Red Chinese government issued a statement calling the action a provocation against China as well as Southeast Asia...
Speaking at one of his rare news conferences, Kosygin said, "By launching the war in Cambodia and resuming large-scale barbarous bombings of populated localities in North Vietnam, President Nixon actually nullifies the decision. . . on the termination from November 1968 of all air bombings against North Vietnam...
...same cannot be said of his Politburo colleagues. Several?notably Mikhail Suslov, 67, Arvid Pelshe, 71, as well as Kosygin?are aging and sickly. Kosygin is said to have asked permission to retire several times; he was reportedly turned down in the interests of preserving a balance in the collective leadership. The Politburo membership has remained virtually unchanged for five years, however, and it is possible that Brezhnev may soon encourage a number of its members to retire. At least some Politburo appointments would probably go to younger men, refleeting the fact that three-fourths of Russia's 14 million...
Though Brezhnev seems to have taken a firm hold on his country's economy, long Kosygin's sphere, his precise course of action may not become readily discernible until the 24th Party Congress convenes, probably in November. At that time, the next Five-Year Plan will be unveiled. An official of the State Planning Commission has indicated that the plan will probably call for an annual growth rate of 7% to 8%, place heavier emphasis on consumer production, seek some outside capital investment a la Ford and urge the rapid development of natural resources in Siberia...