Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer-range consequences are equally serious. Demonstrating Soviet concern, Izvestia warned last week that rejection of the treaties would lead "to a slippery and disastrous road." Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who has staked his prestige on detente in Europe, might have to yield ground to Moscow's hardliners. Defeat of the treaties could also create diplomatic trouble for West Germany's allies. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers last week termed the Berlin agreement a major achievement of the Nixon Administration. In fact, the successful outcome of those talks last fall was one reason Nixon agreed to visit...
...century-old controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...
...that, the Russians and their allies studiously avoided a direct attack on the U.S. Evidently, they were taking no chances of upsetting Nixon's scheduled Moscow summit meeting with Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev in May. In private, the Russians were not so restrained. To a reporter, one Soviet diplomat in Washington complained: "Look how Nixon is trying to exploit our differences with Peking. This is a very dangerous game for you and for everyone...
Recently, while on a four-month reporting tour in Eastern Europe, Tinnin witnessed an incident that underscored the dramatic shift in naval power. He and other newsmen were covering the arrival of Leonid Brezhnev for talks in Belgrade when Soviet warships steamed menacingly into the Adriatic port of Rijeka, where the Russians would like to establish a base. Neither the journalists nor the Tito government could miss the point of the dual visitation...
...Moscow, produced the now-familiar pomp and reassuring communiqués, but were in fact of special significance. In pursuit of his Ostpolitik, Brandt has become the Western leader most familiar with the opportunities and trials of negotiating with the Communist worlds. His insights into Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, although not mentioned publicly, were nonetheless part of Nixon's preparations for the Moscow summit...