Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This double-barreled statement was Carter's rationale both for his people-to-people style as President and for its international version, which could be called airwave diplomacy. In effect, he was telling Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that he would keep on castigating the Russians for suppressing human rights and telling Americans about foreign policy as it takes shape...
...night and, after a short and inconsequential arrival statement, entered a black ZIL limousine and were whisked to a dacha in Lenin Hills, just up the road from the one in which predecessor Henry Kissinger used to stay." As Vance's meetings with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev began, however, the atmosphere was expected to be considerably chillier. In fact, there was only limited hope in Washington that the trip would produce any real progress in curbing the nuclear arms race and coping with a score of other problematical issues...
...troubles were beginning to brew with the Soviet Union, then China's chief international ally. By 1960 the break between the two countries was complete. While Chiang Ch'ing did not play a direct role in foreign affairs, she did have some contact with Soviet leaders. Leonid Brezhnev she would later describe as "the biggest clown in the world"; Nikita Khrushchev was "a big fool." She was particularly bitter about him because he had talked to foreign statesmen about the "yellow peril...
There is also concern that Carter's approach may result in the Kremlin's cracking down even harder on protesters. Further, there is real fear at the State Department that Carter's statements might undercut Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who has a deep personal stake in improved U.S.-Soviet relations. Harried by Carter and vulnerable to his own hardliners, Brezhnev could be forced to take an obdurate stand on the SALT talks to show that he is not knuckling under to Washington...
...would be willing to complete a quick SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union, basically confirming the limitation on nuclear weapons agreed upon by President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev in 1974, without resolving the continuing controversy over whether the Soviet Union's Backfire bomber and the U.S. cruise missile should come under the set ceilings. Carter would allow that question to be decided later. This idea had also been proposed by Ford and rejected by the Russians, who, however, may be more receptive...