Word: kosygin
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...leadership recognizes the wisdom of building in brick. Nikita Khrushchev for years had huffed and puffed in favor of prefabricated concrete slabs, relegating the lowly brick to minor status in the nation's crash housing program. But last week, when the new economic plans of Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were disclosed, the brick was back in the planners' priorities. That alone would not keep the wolf from the door, but some of the other decisions announced would certainly help...
...Ayub Khan's new chumminess with China was not calculated to please, and Soviet leaders still remember that the U.S. U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over the Russian heartland had taken off from Pakistan's Peshawar base. But Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was on hand as Ayub Khan, jauntily wearing a black caracul cap, came down the ramp accompanied by his daughter, Begum Aurangzeb, and his Foreign Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...
There was time for only one talk with Party First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev before he and Kosygin entrained for Poland. The talk was officially described as "friendly and frank"-and "frank" in Communist terms means disagreement. One purpose of the trip was Ayub Khan's hope to budge the Soviets from supporting India's claim to Kashmir, which is disputed by Pakistan. Still, Ayub Khan said he appreciated the "open-mindedness" of the Soviet leaders. He invited his hosts to visit him in Karachi, but Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan said he had already been there and someone else...
...taking no chances: their astral greeting was addressed to "the Leninist Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet government." They could have been bolder, for after they fell from orbit, the government was still in the hands of Khrushchev's colorless successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and First Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev...
...continue to work with complete dedication on this problem." Idaho's fuzzy-cheeked Democratic Senator Frank Church, who had been making a lot of headlines with his calls for withdrawal, got the word from Lyndon, now retorted ferociously to a relatively mild propaganda speech by Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Cried Church: "Kosygin calls not for talks but for surrender. He will never get that from the United States...