Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bird Calls. After the warlike words that have ricocheted through the Middle East in recent months, such hopeful statements were like bird calls on a battlefield. The optimism was underscored last week by an unusual series of high-level conferences in the area. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev may have canceled his Middle Eastern trip for real or diplomatic reasons of health (see story page 35), but he was scarcely missed. The Shah of Iran, intent on reinforcing Arab ties, flew to Amman for two days with Jordan's King Hussein and on to Cairo for five more days...
...When Anwar Sadat talks to an American leader, he talks of peace. When he talks to Brezhnev, he talks war." So said an Egyptian official, as he looked ahead to the long-scheduled mid-January visit to Cairo of Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Last week it appeared that the Egyptian President still preferred to talk peace rather than talk war on Russian terms. After a flurry of Egyptian and Soviet diplomatic activity, Brezhnev postponed indefinitely his state visits to Egypt, Syria and Iraq. In light of the Soviet Union's unmistakable desire to increase its influence...
...Soviet leaders are not yet seriously worried about Western-style inflation, largely because they do not also have to worry about Western-style recession. At the recent annual economic meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other officials reported that the Soviet Union's total output of goods and services had risen by 5% in 1974 and would climb by 6.5% in the new year when most Western economies will stand still or grow much more slowly. The Soviets plan to increase industrial production another 7% in 1975, emphasizing output of heavy...
Sadat is steering an extremely careful course between the two superpowers. He knows that Kissinger would like to attempt another round of personal negotiations, which, it is hoped, would result in a further Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai. The Egyptian President also knows, however, that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who will visit Cairo in mid-January, will emphasize the need for an early resumption of the Geneva conference, through which the Soviets might recoup some of the Middle East influence they lost last year when Sadat turned to the West for support and Kissinger scored his disengagement successes. Moreover...
Ford then got ready to leave for Martinique to meet this weekend with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Giscard, meanwhile, had an impromptu dinner in Paris with Wilson, gave a warm welcome to Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, prepared to play host early this week to a summit meeting of the heads of government of the nine Common Market countries -and got out his bathing suit for the U.S.-French summit in Martinique. If any of the political jet-setters should get confused and propose a toast to his good friend "Helmut Ford" or his old colleague "Harold...