Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arbatov and his staff of thoroughly modern Marxists earn their keep by producing position papers for Soviet policymakers and servicing Soviet technocrats' curiosity about the management techniques of U.S. business and industry. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev is thought to have relied heavily on institute position papers and briefings when he prepared to meet Richard Nixon at the Moscow summit. The institute has published a book on American research and development as well as reports on such subjects as "The Container Revolution in Transport," "Agricultural Research in the U.S.A.," and "Psychology and Cybernetics...
...Only the ABM treaty requires formal ratification by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. The missile freeze, technically an executive agreement between Nixon and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, is already in force although Nixon has asked for majority approval of both houses...
...Kremlin leaders have their dachas within the same compound. The most prominent dachnik, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, has a weekend getaway spot near Barvikha, where he entertained Richard Nixon during the Moscow summit meetings. Former President Anastas Mikoyan has retired to Zubalovo, an estate surrounding a manor house decorated with marble statues, tapestries and stained glass. In czarist times it belonged to an oil millionaire; Joseph Stalin later expropriated the estate and included one of its mansions among his nine dachas around Moscow and in his native Georgia...
...been pressured into emigrating (TIME, June 19). However, a hard core of activists is obviously determined to keep the movement alive. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Russian hydrogen bomb and a leading critic of the current regime, last week released a letter he had written to Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, protesting the increase of "persecution for political and ideological reasons...
...destroyed the unity of the Marxist faith. But last week, in a dramatic culmination of a historic reversal of Soviet policy, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito was treated to a hero's welcome in Moscow. At a state dinner in Tito's honor, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev did not even allude to the earlier disagreements that led to the 1948 break between Stalin and Tito. Instead, Brezhnev praised Tito for "your friendly attitude toward our country." In perhaps the most ironic turnabout of all, Tito, who reached 80 last month, was awarded the Order of Lenin...