Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee members." One reason for the nonpartisanship is that Ervin has worked closely with Howard Baker, the ranking Republican and vice chairman. From the beginning, every vote of the committee has been unanimous, except when Connecticut's Lowell Weicker voted against postponing the hearings during the week Leonid Brezhnev was visiting Richard Nixon...
...chummy atmosphere between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. At the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Helsinki and attended by 35 Foreign Ministers (TIME, July 16), the Europeans openly voiced their suspicions that Nixon may have made too many concessions to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. They suspected that Nixon gave in to the Russians on such issues as mutual-but not necessarily balanced-troop withdrawals and nuclear deescalation...
with President Nixon, Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev also agreed to another precondition for the convocation in Helsinki: the setting of a firm date...
...quarantine was hardly airtight. During their meeting with President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev at the Western White House, the astronauts balked at the orders of NASA doctors and did not wear face masks. "If we catch a cold," joked Conrad, "it would be an honor to catch a cold from you two gentlemen." Brezhnev joined in the banter by asking Conrad to take the two leaders up to Skylab. Nixon cheerfully nodded his assent...
...LEONID I. BREZHNEV, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union during Lenin's era was a revolutionary beacon for the rest of the world, but all that promise was lost someplace between the Purge Trials and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and nudged Russia backwards until it stands today as the world's Number Two imperialist power. Soviet internal repression is greater than in this country, but it is less imperialist outside its borders, perhaps because it lacks the American capacity for aggrandizement. It was altogether fitting that World Enemy Numbers...