Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What had doubtless seemed simple generosity to President Ford when he gave his Alaska timberwolf fur coat to an ad miring Leonid Brezhnev seemed to them defiling of an endangered species. Let ters and telegrams of protest greeted Ford on his return to Washington. It turned out that the Chief Executive was saved by the skin of his coat. While wolves in the Lower 48 states are on the endangered list, the 50,000 or so timber wolves that inhabit Alaska are not, so Ford emerged blameless on a technicality. The coat was the gift of an Alaska furrier named...
Those comments on the preliminary SALT II agreement reached in Vladivostok between Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev apparently were the opening statements in another national debate over nuclear weapons. While there seemed to be a growing consensus that the impending deal is better than no agreement at all, it was nevertheless promptly criticized from two contrasting viewpoints: some critics felt that the U.S. was yielding too much, while various arms-control specialists complained that the pact would legitimize both nuclear deployment to date and the further development plans of the two superpowers over the next ten years...
...favor the conference because they could speak as a bloc and they would also be supported by a Russian voice as forceful as that of Washington. Damascus predicted resumption of Geneva talks in early January. In Cairo, they were expected to resume soon after So viet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev makes his first trip to Egypt...
...most important announcement was a promise that President Ford would visit Peking next year-some time after his scheduled June meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Washington. But in the course of "frank and wide-ranging" talks on such things as food, energy and the Middle East, Kissinger devoted himself as much to a renewal of old friendships as to any attempt to break new ground. The Secretary paid a courtesy call on Premier Chou Enlai, 76, who was undergoing hospital treatment for heart disease. The hoped-for visit with Mao Tse-tung did not materialize. There...
...principal reason for China's apparent patience is its continued preoccupation with Russia. Even as Kissinger was in Peking, Leonid Brezhnev was in Mongolia, emphatically rejecting a recent Chinese offer to sign a nonaggression treaty in exchange for mutual withdrawals from disputed border areas...