Word: kosygin
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...leadership is still wrestling with an even more fundamental economic problem. Should economic stagnation be attacked by reapplying the all but forgotten liberal "Liberman reforms" introduced by Premier Aleksei Kosygin in 1965 and soon quietly abandoned by the conservative Brezhnev? Those reforms called for decentralization, increased authority for factory and regional managers, and careful use of market mechanisms. Or should the Kremlin move in the opposite direction by imposing even stricter discipline and central control...
...Some top-level changes are expected by the next congress, but an argument is still raging over who should move up. In the center of this speculation is Aleksei Kosygin. Only last week, along with President Nikolai Podgorny, he was unanimously re-elected by the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet. Nonetheless, at 66 Kosygin has neither the robust health nor the untempered power hunger of some of his colleagues, and some Western experts believe he would like to step down at the 24th Congress...
Strictly Protocol. Brezhnev turned his ceremonial duties over to Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The Rumanians countered by sending out a welcoming delegation headed by Premier Ion Maurer, Kosygin's exact equivalent in government rank but not in real power or party stature. Crowds lining the Soviet Premier's parade route were perhaps one-tenth the size of the ones that welcomed President Nixon to Bucharest last year. Ceausescu stayed away from the formal events, including his own government's official reception and the treaty signing. He entertained Kosygin at one luncheon and spent three hours in private talks...
...Knesset speech was not a definite rejection. Nor have Israel's opponents thus far rejected Rogers' proposals. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who arrived in Moscow for a week-long official visit, met three times with Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, principally to discuss the U.S. overture. At the United Nations, Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik indicated that Moscow might be amenable to something less than complete Israeli withdrawal. Russia's Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, made the same point six weeks ago in the private discussions he has been having with...
Many Russians would feel less unsettled by the new portrayal of Stalin if the present regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin were not embarked upon a campaign of selective repression against intellectual dissidents. In the wake of arrests and harassment of outstanding writers, scientists and civil libertarians, some Russians fear, the more favorable official view of Stalin will lessen the pressures on the government to refrain from the harsh practices that so severely scarred his 27-year rule of Russia...