Word: kosygin
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...above Moscow, flights of Soviet jets in tight formation spelled out the word Lenin and the arabic numeral 50 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. As Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin looked on from an airport on the city's outskirts, the Soviet military last week put on a rare demonstration of new military aircraft; the last such display was six years ago. To Western observers, the Moscow show also spelled out something else: a new direction in Soviet airpower...
...Romney by 9% less than four months ago. Harris showed him leading both Romney and former Vice President Richard Nixon by a 56-to-44 margin. His renewed popularity unquestionably reflected approval of his low-keyed handling of the Mideast crisis and of his meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin...
...Havana's Josè Marti Airport, consisting mostly of diplomats from Communist embassies, and the handshake from his only ally in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba's Fidel Castro, was sullen. There were no decorations, no honor guard, no military band. And not until half an hour after Kosygin's arrival did Radio Havana get around to mentioning the visit. Even then, it gave only a brief announcement barely longer than another item praising workers of the Balcan pasteurization plant for delivering their quota of yoghurt...
During four days of Castro-Kosygin talks, Cubans read or heard almost nothing of what went on. The only hint came at midweek, when Tass reported that the discussions were "frank"-a favorite Soviet euphemism for disagreement. Toward the end of the meetings, however, the two men apparently worked out some of their major differences. The day Kosygin left Havana, airport roads were lined with Russian and Cuban flags, an honor guard boomed out a 21-gun salute, and Castro gave his visitor a parting abrazo...
From Havana, Kosygin flew on to Paris and brief talks with Charles de Gaulle. The visit was mostly ceremonial-a Soviet show of thanks for De Gaulle's indirect support during the Middle East crisis. Then it was home to Moscow...