Word: leonid
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Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev made his first trip abroad last week since he jostled Nikolai Podgorny out of the Soviet presidency (TIME, June 6) and added that largely honorary title to his other calling-card credits. On a three-day visit to France, Brezhnev frequently behaved less like a President than like an emperor...
...Leonid Brezhnev in Paris grumbled about the U.S., that was nothing compared with the tongue-lashing administered by the Kremlin to fellow Communists in Western Europe. An unsigned 5,000-word article in New Times -a Soviet weekly devoted primarily to foreign affairs-savaged Spanish Communist Party Leader Santiago Carrillo with the kind of language normally reserved for the Chinese. He was charged with advocating "crude anti-Sovietism," making "slanderous allegations" and taking "unsavory positions...
...greatest happiness is being able to live under the sun of the Stalin constitution, each article of which is sacred for us." So declared Izvestiya three decades ago. Last week there loomed on the horizon of Soviet citizens a new constitution-Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's proudest creation and the product of 15 years of labor and behind-the-scenes controversy...
...seems that SALT II will probably follow the general formula approved at the November 1974 summit in Vladivostok-just as Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev has been insisting it must. While the relatively high ceilings (2,400 strategic launchers for each side) permitted by the Vladivostok guidelines may be lowered a bit in SALT II's final draft, the very substantial slashes in the U.S. and Soviet arsenals sought by President Jimmy Carter will have to await SALT...
...PUBLIC. In March, by revealing the U.S. negotiating position with considerable fanfare even before Cyrus Vance had his first meeting with Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter learned a vivid lesson in how not to deal with Moscow. The Soviets are conservative and secretive; they publicize the workings of government only for purposes of propaganda. Nor do they appreciate or even understand the Western practice of leaking information to the press...