Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achieve something most nations would consider quixotic-combining world power with moral principle. The human rights campaign, unveiled by Carter in his Inaugural Address, has also been the object of more passionate advocacy and more scornful criticism than any other single element of his foreign policy. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has denounced the human rights policy as interference in the internal affairs of other countries. A number of American critics, too, have decried Carter's approach as rhetorical and naive. Several Soviet dissidents, on the other hand, have credited the Carter policy with keeping their movement alive. Minnesota Congressman...
...maneuver's importance once it was under way. In New Delhi, the resident KGB team concluded that Indira Gandhi would easily win re-election in 1977. More embarrassing was the gambit of Vladimir Rybachenko, who served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described a French Defense Ministry computer system. Rybachenko was expelled. Then there was the gift by Colonel Vassili Denisenko, the Soviet military attaché in Switzerland, to an under cover...
...wedding pictures are ready for the album, and at 22, Olga Korbut has left her temper tantrums-and her parallel bars-behind. The Olympic gold medalist plans to coach gymnastics rather than perform. She also hopes to travel with her husband, Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with the Soviet Union's popular folk-rock group Pesnyary (Singers). First stop: Cuba, where the couple will have a delayed honeymoon and where Leonid's group has an invitation to warble. As usual Pesnyary will perform jazzed-up Byelorussian songs. A pity, since Olga's favorites are by Stevie Wonder...
MARRIED. Olga Korbut, 22, petite, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics; and Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with a popular Byelorussian folk-pop group called "Pesnyary"; she for the first time, he for the second; in Minsk...
...night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added his chapter in Vladivostok, spending the night with Leonid Brezhnev to conclude details of a nuclear-arms-limitation agreement...