Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department for more details, under the Freedom of Information Act. Anxieties about long-range effects of microwave exposure persist. Said one angry former Moscow resident: "One of the things I'm not going to give up my life for is intercepting the conversations of Leonid Brezhnev in his limousine...
Kremlinologists in the West have long speculated that Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev would sing his swan song at this year's 25th Party Congress. Some swan song...
...into Western governments might speed their conversion from revolutionary, potentially disruptive outsiders to evolutionary insiders. It might also widen the gap between the local parties and Moscow. The Soviets, in fact, do not conceal their irritation with the independence shown by some of their Western comrades. Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev recently complained that "some have begun to interpret [proletarian internationalism] in such a way that little is left to internationalism...
...reduction of world tensions. Although taking a hopeful view of the long-term trend of U.S.-Soviet relations, Henry Kissinger has recently warned Americans against expecting too much of détente, which Kremlin hard-liners have long described as a mere tactic. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev strongly reinforced that view -and then some. Détente, he argued, is not an end in itself but a means of achieving Russia's strategic objectives...
Behind the facade of socialist pageantry and the rhetoric of fraternal solidarity lies another, incomparably more complex reality. Clearly, the congress marks a time for national stocktaking. New crises, problems and opportunities are at hand for the U.S.S.R. Leonid Brezhnev's decade-long rule is inexorably coming to its natural end, even though Kremlinologists no longer believe he will use the congress podium to announce his retirement. Whatever the state of his health, this is surely the last Party congress over which he will preside as General Secretary. Several others in the gerontocratic Politburo (average age: 66) will also...