Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...upstairs to a party secretaryship was Supreme Economic Council Chairman (since 1963) Dmitry F. Ustinov. Replacing him was onetime State Planner Vladimir Novikov, 58. Ustinov's other post as First Deputy Premier went to a Byelorussian apparatchik, Kirill T. Mazurov, 50. Though Khrushchev's old ideological czar, Leonid Ilyichev, was also bumped aside, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev laid most emphasis on the agricultural mess...
...intense continuing rivalry for control of the Communist camp was most evident in Russia's and China's at tempts to outdo each other in promises of aid to the Communist Viet Cong. After only a hint from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that Moscow might send men to North Viet Nam, Peking came screaming from its corner with promises of its own "volunteers." Brezhnev's Red Square speech, however, was far from an outright pledge of troops, and Peking's promise was just as carefully hedged...
...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...
Political leaders of the U.S.S.R. appeared on TV applauding the flight. But there was none of the gay banter of one of Nikita Khrushchev's conversations with orbiting cosmonauts. Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev picked up a white telephone and did his leaden best. "We applaud you," he said to the Voskhod II. "We await you in Moscow." Congratulatory messages arrived from all over the world. The Pope and President Johnson both offered applause...