Word: kosygin
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...relationship has always been a rather special one, occasionally baffling outsiders. "I don't understand you Americans backing Israel," Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin told Lyndon Johnson in 1967. "There are 80 million Arabs and only 3 million Jews. Why do it?" Johnson shot back: "Because it's right." Yet, as Ronald Reagan's anger over Israel's siege of West Beirut demonstrated last week, that "right"relationship can sometimes confound, even infuriate, the two nations...
...demonstrated during the Cuban missile crisis and America's alert during the previous month's Mideast war. He illustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his enlustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his encounter in 1969 with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who had come uninvited to Peking airport to discuss the easing of Sino-Soviet tensions...
...told Kosygin] that I originally said this struggle was going to go on for 10,000 years. On the merit of his coming to see me in person, I will cut it down by 1,000 years. Another time [a Rumanian official] came also to speak on behalf of the Soviet Union. This time I again made a concession of 1,000 years. You see, my time limit is becoming shorter and shorter, and when the Rumanian President Ceauşescu came two years ago, and he again raised the issue, I said: 'This time I can make...
...spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have to be filtered through an ideological bureaucracy before they are reported. For example, news of the death of former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin was withheld for 36 hours by TASS and Radio Moscow. Even Soviet citizens heard the news first on Western broadcasts...
...Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...