Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regrettably, Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev had never talked. The half a dozen letters that Reagan received from Brezhnev were stiff and cool. He remained in the eyes of Reagan a Communist bully. Richard Nixon, who spent days with the Soviet leader, caught the glint of a realist in Brezhnev, a man struggling within his own system to cool hot heads, a man sometimes mellowed by the memories of his father's admonition to bring peace to the world. There was a human bond...
...announcement came suddenly and without warning. At a hastily called press conference in Warsaw last Thursday, Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban read a routine message of condolence to the Soviet Union on the occasion of the death of President Leonid Brezhnev. Then, droning on in his habitual monotone, Urban proceeded to recite an astounding letter of conciliation to General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the leader of Poland's martial-law regime, from Lech Walesa, the jailed leader of the outlawed Solidarity union. The message had been written from Arlamowo, a government-owned hunting lodge about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw, where Walesa...
...DIED. Leonid Brezhnev, 75, General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee and President of the Soviet Union; of heart and vascular disease; near Moscow (see THE SOVIETS...
...Leonid Brezhnev leaves a vacuum greater than the man who filled...
...called his novel Under Western Eyes because he wanted his readers to understand that his story was being told by an outsider, meaning that no non-Russian could ever hope to see into that particular heart of darkness with any clarity or certainty. It is the same now. With Leonid Brezhnev gone, where are Western eyes to look, at the man or at the space he left, for an understanding of this moment...