Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nixon met three times with Leonid Brezhnev, first in 1972 to sign the SALT I pact. McFarlane said it was "premature to speculate" that the January meeting might lead to a Reagan-Chernenko encounter. Before last week's announcement, Chernenko told NBC News in answer to written questions that he did not think "conditions now are ripe for a Soviet-American summit meeting." Still, U.S. officials have bandied about the idea of a summit next fall...
With each passing year the Nov. 7 parade before a lineup of Kremlin leaders atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square has come to resemble a mystery play rather than a military pageant. Leonid Brezhnev died only three days after he made a faltering appearance in biting weather in 1982. His ailing successor, the late Yuri Andropov, gave hints of his imminent demise when he failed to show up for last year's ceremony. This year it was Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov who was missing. Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov...
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid Ilyichev offered a less than optimistic view of the chances for an improvement in Sino-Soviet relations when he arrived in Peking earlier this month for the fifth round of talks between the two nations. Said he: "We never lose hope." True to form, there were no signs last week of any breakthrough in the two-year-old negotiations. But if détente between the Communist world's two biggest rivals has been stalled, Peking has had some measure of success recently in wooing Moscow's friends and neighbors...
Things were different when Richard Nixon met with Leonid Brezhnev...
...Soviet TV commentator was clearly excited. "The parachute is coming down, coming down!" he repeated rapidly. "Coming down!" Beneath the plume of a red-and-white chute one morning last week, a capsule drifted earthward carrying three cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim, 43, Vladimir Solovyev, 38, and Oleg Atkov, 35, to the arid steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan. The triumphant trio, who had been aloft since last February aboard an orbiting Soviet space station, were the possessors of a new space endurance record: a 237-day spin through the heavens.* A more important trophy was the cache of information gathered from experiments...