Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Government, ruling circles and big business have been bitterly opposed to Richard Nixon's policy of rapprochement with the Soviet Union. They were galled by his trip to Moscow, infuriated by his policy of increased trade-but the final straw is the planned visit by Leonid Brezhnev to the U.S. next month. So they have got together and cooked up the Watergate scandal in order to discredit Nixon and sabotage his policy toward the Soviet Union...
...since Nikita Khrushchev emerged as top man in the Kremlin had the Politburo received such a shakeup. In the most confident and decisive political move of his eight years as head of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev last week eased out two enemies from the ruling Politburo and replaced them with four powerful and seemingly loyal allies...
...Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath in Washington last February, and with Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti two weeks ago. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is due in the U.S. this week; France's President Georges Pompidou is also scheduled to meet Nixon before Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev arrives for his long-awaited U.S. tour in June...
...crisis to subordinates for a while, U.S. Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz last week flew off on an urgent three-day trip to Moscow. He got Kissinger-like treatment: a minimum of protocol, a box at the Bolshoi for Giselle, and a three-hour meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Shultz came to talk trade in general, but he also had an unusual mission: to lobby for the Kremlin's help in a tough struggle that the White House faces with a testy U.S. Congress...
...adversaries in the Middle East's no-war, no-peace stalemate agree that peace cannot come unless the major powers will it. They believe that any real breakthrough will appear only after Nixon and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev confer later this year in Washington. Therefore, in addition to being shopping trips for additional U.S. military or economic aid, both Hussein's and Mrs. Meir's visits were designed to lay the groundwork for that later call...