Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reason for that wall of silence: by not publicly admitting the existence of Jennifer, the U.S. hopes to permit the Soviets to avoid any official response that could damage relations between the two nations. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is due to visit the U.S. this summer, and CIA officials remember all too well that Moscow used the U-2 spy-plane incident to ruin a summit in 1960. Last week, when the Jennifer saga broke, the acting Soviet ambassador in Washington sent a strong cable to Moscow advising the Kremlin to make a firm protest to Washington. But Moscow...
...Regan took first prize in news feature pictures from the World Press Photo competition in Amsterdam for his evocative glimpse of Ted Kennedy walking in Moscow with his arm around his son Teddy Jr. (TIME, Jan. 6). Kennedy reciprocated by snapping a shot of Regan with a grinning Leonid Brezhnev...
However his Middle Eastern diplomacy turns out, there are plenty of other challenges lying ahead to make Kissinger want to stay on as Secretary of State. The SALT talks are now taking place in Geneva, and the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev is still scheduled to visit the U.S. this summer for a summit meeting with President Ford. In the meantime, with an unfriendly Congress to woo, the Secretary of State realizes that his most delicate diplomacy may have to be performed right in his own backyard...
...support in maintaining the Middle East momentum. Kissinger's suggestion that the Russians back off from their persistent demands to reopen the Geneva conference was more or less rebuffed. Gromyko was more interested in other discussions on SALT, U.S.Soviet trade, the European Security Conference, and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit to Washington next summer. On Geneva, however, the two could agree only that the conference should reconvene "at an early date." In the involved semantics of diplomacy, Kissinger's aides insisted, it signaled that the Soviets were not likely to obstruct the next round of negotiations...
...question, Mrs. Thatcher had breakfasted at Claridges with Henry Kissinger (who pronounced her "quite a girl"). Then she went to the House of Commons for her first serious parliamentary skirmish with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had just returned from a visit with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow and was feeling ebullient. Such dealings with the Soviets were fine, declared Mrs. Thatcher, provided they "never lull this House or this country into a sense of false security." In an unsubtle reference to the Tory leader's admitted lack of expertise in foreign affairs, Wilson condescendingly retorted: "Some...