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...Johnson's mobilization order, as every U.S. call-up has invariably done, proved of immense concern to the Russians. Almost immediately, Tass was on the air denouncing it as "a threatening act." More significantly, the move was greeted with some concern by Kosygin and his entourage, who were in New Delhi for the 18th anniversary of India's independence. In the wake of the U.S. call-up, Kosygin let it be known that the Kremlin's top leadership is more interested in a settlement than its underlings had let on. Kosygin's aides even hinted that...
Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin is a mild-appearing man who, along with present Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, helped overthrow Khrushchev in 1964 because, among other reasons, he was acutely embarrassed by Nicky's high jinks and rocket rattling. An efficient bureaucrat, Kosygin not only involves himself deeply in the Soviet Union's domestic affairs but also directs his country's foreign policy. This week, in an interview in LIFE, he proved that he can be just as tough and unbending as any of his predecessors. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects in a more or less...
...Kosygin was obviously aware of his ultimate audience. He was clearly determined to impress fellow Communists as well as Americans with his toughness-in part, perhaps, to discourage and weaken U.S. resolve over Viet Nam. The toughness is genuine enough; at the same time, the Russian line is often a few shades softer than it sounds in public statements...
Romney chose the well-scrubbed students of Keene State College to hear his plan to neutralize North and South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia under international guarantees. He reported positive interest from world leaders during his latest globe-girdling tour, which included South Viet Nam. Soviet Pre mier Aleksei Kosygin, Romney reported, had failed to come up with any better ideas...
...Express. While a raging blizzard shut down the airports of Eastern Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued at each stop hardly illuminated what pressing business could have made fellow...