Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fitting memento of their meeting. The President and the Russian diplomat had just concluded what may prove to be the most productive round of strategic arms limitation talks since Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Gerald Ford set SALT II guidelines in Vladivostok in November 1974. At his press conference later in the week, Carter said that the Soviets "have been fairly flexible in their attitude and we have tried to match their cooperative stance ... We have narrowed down the differences to a relatively small number." To avoid raising hopes, the President added that "an immediate agreement...
...Soviets have been insisting that SALT II follow the guidelines approved by Moscow's Leonid Brezhnev and President Gerald Ford at their 1974 summit in Vladivostok. These allow each side 2,400 strategic missile launchers, of which 1,320 can be armed with MIRVs-multiple, independently targetable warheads. As clear as these guidelines may have seemed originally, they soon became mired in controversy. The U.S., for instance, has been insisting that the ceilings cover the U.S.S.R.'s new Backfire bomber; the Soviets reject this. In turn, Moscow argues that U.S. aircraft firing cruise missiles-relatively cheap, accurate subsonic...
Western governments should press the Soviet Union to respond to President Carter's human rights declaration while they continue to open up trade relations. Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident, told an overflow crowd at Boylston Hall Auditorium last night...
...member Soviet delegation boycotted the debate over the censure -"We consider it rigged," said one delegate-but argued outside the halls that the charges were preposterous. After Dissident Mathematician Leonid Plyushch appeared at a press conference and told of his harassment and incarceration as a mental patient, Babayan said "Plyushch is mentally sick. Now that he lives in the West, you will see him and study him in the future. There never was a single case when a healthy person was placed in a mental hospital...
Having boldly jumped into the world arena like a Daniel in the Lions' den, Carter is finding that the inhabitants have quite a bite. Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, deeply wounded by the human rights crusade, charges that Carter has launched "psychological warfare," and adds that "a normal development of relations on such a basis is, of course, unthinkable." French...