Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight to Zurích with his wife Lilly. The solemn exchange took place on a remote runway nearly a mile from Zurich's Kloten Airport. Corvalán was then flown to Moscow for a hero's welcome and star billing at Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's 70th birthday party on Sunday...
...Russians, for their part, seemed eager to start off on agreeable terms with the Carter Administration. Early in the week, at a Kremlin dinner for 150 U.S. business and Government leaders attending a trade meeting in Moscow, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev talked over their heads toward Plains in urging a speedup in the arms limitation negotiations. At least partly, Brezhnev's remark seemed to reflect Soviet sensitivity over speculation in the West that the Kremlin would aggressively move to test the toughness of the new Administration (TIME...
...maintain calm in the Soviet Union's backyard, while it deals with Washington and Peking, Moscow has been trying to mend a few fences in Eastern Europe. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Belgrade-his first journey to Yugoslavia in five years. The effusive Brezhnev greeted Yugoslav President Josi f Broz Tito with three kisses and an exuberant bear hug. This was one more Slavic smooch than usual -perhaps an index of how anxious Moscow is to improve relations with the independent Yugoslavs. At an official dinner at the Federal Executive Council Building, Brezhnev ridiculed...
Much of the impetus for the anti-smoking campaign seems to be coming from the top. At the insistence of doctors worried about his health, Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev has tried for years to stop his heavy smoking. He even resorted to a special cigarette case with a timer; the case would open only once every 45 minutes. Last year Brezhnev finally kicked his habit and apparently feels that other Russians can-and had better-follow his lead...
...engage it in a web of technological, cultural and economic interrelations that presumably would make it too costly for the Soviets to return to cold war confrontation. Ford is also pressing for a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) based on the agreement he reached with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at their November 1974 meeting in Vladivostok; it would limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear-weapon launchers. This accord has been delayed because of disagreements (within the Administration as well as between Washington and Moscow) over the definition of "strategic nuclear weapon...