Word: leonid
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Isolated Incident. The Soviet action was a serious, though probably not fatal blow to detente. Both Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have long stressed that the normalization of trade relations was a prerequisite for Soviet-American cooperation on such contentious issues as nuclear arms control and peace in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Last week, however, Kissinger presented the Soviet cancellation as an isolated incident in the general course of detente. He characterized Moscow's move as merely an "interruption"-not "a final break." Shortly thereafter, the official Soviet news agency...
...Soviet action also heightened worldwide speculation that yet another victim may be the man who, on the Soviet side, initiated, nurtured and negotiated the trade accord in the first place: Leonid Brezhnev. Top government officials in Washington and in European capitals continued to dismiss rumors of an impending Kremlin shake-up as fanciful. But persistent reports of the 68-year-old Brezhnev's ill health, coupled with the defeat of his trade policy, lent a bit more credence to conjectures that he may be ousted. And Sovietologists noted that even though Brezhnev was seen riding in his Zil limousine...
...Moscow summit, President Nixon and Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev agree on liberalizing U.S.-Soviet trade as an element of their ripening policy of detente...
...Visiting Moscow, Henry Kissinger is lectured by an angry Leonid Brezhnev and handed a letter from Gromyko. The letter, which is not made public for two more months, denounces the Jackson Amendment and threatens rejection of the 1972 trade agreement...
Long-simmering rumors about Leonid Brezhnev's failing health boiled up last week into a wild journalistic borsch of speculation. In Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East, newsmen variously reported that the 68-year-old Soviet party chief had been struck down by a staggering variety of ailments, ranging from abscessed teeth, bursitis, gout, influenza, pneumonia to heart attack and-most ominously-leukemia. The Boston Globe carried the electrifying tale that Brezhnev was momentarily expected to arrive at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center for treatment of this deadly blood disease. Despite Brezhnev's conspicuous nonappearance at Logan...