Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reached during two days of talks at the State Department. Vance will fly to Geneva Dec. 20 for a final two-day session with his opposite number, Andrei Gromyko. Barring hitches, the two men will prepare for a summit meeting between Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, probably in Washington during the week...
...Leonid Brezhnev, 71, is patently not a well man; according to Western intelligence experts, his various ailments may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition. But whatever the current status of his health, the Soviet Union's President and party chief last week demonstrated that he is still firmly in control at the Kremlin. In a shuffle of top-level Communist Party jobs, he elevated one of his staunches! allies to the 13-member ruling Politburo, gave the boot to a prominent nonloyalist and further consolidated his hold on the country's decision-making apparatus...
Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev chose to become involved himself last week. In an unusual front-page Pravda statement, Brezhnev declared: "It should be clear that any interference, especially military interference, in the affairs of Iran, a state that borders directly on the Soviet Union, would be regarded by the U.S.S.R. as affecting the interests of its security." That warning, aimed directly at the U.S., startled and annoyed American officials. After a hasty Sunday meeting, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance issued a statement saying that "the U.S. does not intend to intervene in the internal affairs of any country." Then Vance...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) came to the airport yesterday to greet the Katz family. The family was included in a list of 18 Soviet Jews permitted to emigrate which President Leonid I. Brezhnev presented Kennedy during his September Russian visit. Katz thanked Kennedy for his personal involvement in the cause of Soviet Jews...
...following day, the Senators met with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. During a 50-minute monologue, the aging leader ritually declared that the Soviet Union is interested in peace. He then added that both he and Carter had such power that in "just a couple of minutes [we could] let the missiles fly." If the U.S. ever did, he warned, "we can still destroy...