Word: leonid
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More directly, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev had sent Nixon a note that was described as "brutal" by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and by the President as a message that "left very little to the imagination as to what he intended." The note was kept secret, but TIME has learned that, instead of beginning in the usual diplomatic salutation "Dear Mr. President," it started out with a harsher "Mr. Nixon." It also threatened the "destruction of the state of Israel" by Soviet forces if Israel did not stop violating the cease-fire (see THE WORLD). One member...
...most hopeful sign that they might be making progress was yet an other of Henry Kissinger's sudden, surprise trips, this one to Moscow, where he began a series of private meetings over the Middle East crisis with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Kissinger had spent much of the week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington, but he managed to cover his departure with a typical, though perhaps inevitable, Kissinger feint; he spent the evening at a glittering dinner party hosted by Huang Chen, the head of China's liaison office in Washington. That affair had been...
Nixon said his own foreign policy of detente, his firmness in past international crises and his personal acquaintance with Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev played a role Thursday in avoiding a more serious-confrontation...
Soviet Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev said in Moscow yesterday that the Soviet Union has sent representatives to the war zone at the request of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat...
...issue, fearing that any settlement might set a bad precedent in its dispute with China over territory along the Manchurian border. During the first rounds of Tanaka's negotiations in Moscow, it seemed that a dialogue of the deaf was in the making. While Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev expanded at length on specific opportunities for Japanese participation in Siberian development, Tanaka tenaciously stuck to the island issue...