Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gromyko in 16 months. Other matters that are sure to be discussed will be the latest developments in the Middle East, the continued Soviet intervention in Africa and the mounting harassment of American citizens in Moscow. Vance will give Gromyko a personal message from Carter addressed to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, warning that the Shcharansky and Ginzburg trials could injure U.S.Soviet relations. Carter has already ordered a review of all U.S.-Soviet cooperative agreements to find ways to dramatize U.S. concern about the case, and Vance formally announced that Presidential Science Adviser Frank Press would not, as previously planned, attend...
...another of those seesaw weeks in U.S.-Soviet relations. First, Jimmy Carter spoke soothingly at a press conference of his "deep belief that the underlying relationship between ourselves and the Soviets is stable" and that he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev want "to have better friendship." Next, both governments calmly carried out a trade: the U.S. released two accused Soviet spies from jail in New Jersey, while the Soviets set free an American charged with currency violations in Moscow. But then Soviet authorities suddenly summoned two American reporters to a Moscow court and charged them with "denigrating the honor...
...enjoyed early morning jogs through Red Square. "I never saw a people so peaceful and orderly," he said. Looking a paunchy 235 Ibs., he also lumbered through two-round exhibition matches with three top Soviet heavyweights. The highlight of the trip was a 35-minute interview with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Recalled Ali: "He gave me a hug, and I gave him a hug. All he talked was peace, peace, peace. I felt like the black President...
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev warned darkly about a "return, if not to the cold war, then at least to a 'chilly' war." Speaking in Prague, he accused NATO of accelerating the arms race. There may have been an element of grand standing in his statements, but they nonetheless signified that the Soviets were in no mood to budge on the issues that divide East and West. Said a veteran Western diplomat in Moscow: "It's the worst I've seen in a long time. They're not backing down an inch...
...Europe might provoke the Kremlin into tightening its control over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with no Soviet troops on its territory, were...