Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikhail Gorbachev's public campaign against corruption in the Soviet Union is now touching the friends of former President Leonid Brezhnev and his family. Acquaintances of Brezhnev's daughter Galina and his son Yuri are reportedly being questioned about bribery involving the use of posh hotel rooms and of restaurants for private banquets attended by well-connected figures from the Brezhnev era. The state-controlled press, without mentioning Brezhnev by name, has criticized the cronyism fostered during his 18-year rule...
During my tenure TIME's editorial staff made me particularly proud with three special issues -- on the Soviet Union (1980), Japan (1983) and immigrants (1985) -- and with its prizewinning coverage of the 1984 Olympics and the presidential campaign. TIME was among the first Western publications to interview Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and China's Deng Xiaoping. The magazine continues to have unrivaled access to the world's newsmakers. When Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was ready to reach an international audience, he outlined his views in TIME...
...impression was not hard to locate. Along with his energetic new Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbachev was followed closely by aides who have been writing speeches for Kremlin leaders for nearly 20 years. Among them were scholarly, multilingual Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, a foreign policy adviser since 1966, and rubicund Leonid Zamyatin, head of the Soviet Central Committee's international information department since 1978. Zamyatin in particular appeared to confirm that there was a conscious attempt to temper the General Secretary's ebullience. He soon quoted his boss to the effect that "there is no Gorbachev style. Therefore, there...
...client states as Viet Nam and Afghanistan. While Gorbachev and his wife attended their Elysee dinner, more than 1,000 people paid about $2.50 each to attend a screening of the U.S. movie Sakharov and to hear speeches by prominent emigres. Police arrested about 30 demonstrators, including Soviet Mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who defied a ban on demonstrations outside the Soviet embassy...
...midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for distribution of a 34-page study on how the Soviets have advanced 5,000 of their research projects with technical information bought, stolen or acquired legally in the West...