Word: kosygin
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...applause swell for past dramas: Ike before worshipful masses in Seoul; Kennedy firm-jawed at the Berlin Wall; L.B.J. staring down Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro; Nixon clinking glasses in the Great Hall with Chou Enlai, then eating Wheaties in the Kremlin; Ford grinning beneath his fur hat in the snows of Vladivostok with Leonid Brezhnev. Worthy acts. But the world changes...
...named Petapiece (Denholm Elliott), the sort of fellow who sneaks a drag on someone's cigarette if it is left untended for a moment. Petapiece's proposition to Shaver is the elimination of Henke, a notorious political troublemaker who may be plotting to assassinate Premier Aleksei Kosygin during his imminent visit to Toronto...
Soviet styles at the top are changing, visually at least. Premier Aleksei Kosygin has taken to striped ties, President Nikolai Podgorny sometimes appears in patterned shirts, TV anchormen wear checked blazers with wide lapels, and sports heroes and young Communist Leaguers are allowed long hair and two-tone shoes. Such tolerance of Western ways is strictly sartorial...
...first time after the Americans proved their clear superiority in space by landing on the moon in 1969. Apollo 13's failure a year later added a new inducement to a joint mission: the obvious need for orbital rescue capability. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin formally agreed on a joint space mission at the 1972 Moscow Summit...
...demonstrate the same spirit. But it also showed that he was not limited to following Sadat's lead. In a far different manner, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi was showing the same sort of bristly independence. The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram angrily charged that during Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Libya two weeks ago, Gaddafi agreed to take $4 billion in Soviet arms in return for allowing the Russians to establish military facilities and technicians on Libyan soil. Libya speedily denied such reports, but diplomats in Cairo were not impressed. Even if the dimensions of Soviet...