Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty was initialed by U.S. Ambassador Walter Stoessel Jr. in Moscow earlier last week, and to underscore its significance, Ford and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev were to affix their signatures in live TV ceremonies in the White House and the Kremlin. Administration officials offered no formal explanation for the change in plans, but one was hardly needed: the President clearly was reluctant to antagonize even further the Republican right, already irked by the Ford-Kissinger policy of detente...
...leaders of the Soviet Union -Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, Aleksei Kosygin-were downcast as they stood by the flower-covered bier in Moscow's imposing Trade Union House. While a string orchestra played funeral dirges, thousands of workers, soldiers and bureaucrats filed past the medal-bedecked dais for a last look at the jut-jawed countenance of Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, Soviet Defense Minister and architect of the Kremlin's modern-day military might...
...many analysts of Soviet affairs believe that later, Grechko-bending with the diplomatic winds-did not oppose a relaxation of tensions with the West. In 1973, when détente had begun in earnest, Grechko was brought into the Politburo by Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev-a rare honor for any military man. Grechko's appointment was probably intended to reassure Moscow's hawkish factions, but observers believe that Grechko was all along a strong supporter of Brezhnev's policies, including détente...
...want to mess with grain sales and SALT negotiations." The SALT II talks are stalemated, but Washington was hopeful last week that Moscow would move toward at least an interim agreement. The U.S. has proposed that the two nations reaffirm the agreements reached by Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in 1974, thus indicating readiness to discuss further limitations...
Moscow was plainly surprised-and embarrassed. The Soviet press retorted weakly that Sadat's move was meaningless because the treaty was "paralyzed" in any case. There was no mention of the fact that only last month at the 25th Party Congress, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev had dismissed rumors of rift and pledged to strengthen Soviet-Egyptian relations. The U.S. was quietly delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades...