Word: leonid
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...deepest problem is that Sale, like others who idealize the people whose fate was sealed by the explorer's arrival, actually does them another kind of injury. The perfect island race of Sale's imagination is denied its commonality with the rest of humanity. Father Leonid Kishkovsky of the Orthodox Church in America, who chaired the National Council of the Churches meeting at which the controversial Columbus quincentennial resolution was debated, is one of those who question the notion implicit in Sale's work that evil was something imported exclusively from Europe: "In a certain sense this is patronizing...
...communist economy was, it did provide jobs of a sort for everybody and a steady, if meager, supply of basic goods at low, subsidized prices; Soviet citizens for more than 70 years were conditioned to expect that from their government. Says a Moscow worker: "We had everything during ((Leonid)) Brezhnev's times. There was sausage in the stores. We could buy vodka. Things were normal...
...Vremya (Time). Instead they first saw a taped session in the office of Yegor Yakovlev, a reformist newspaper editor who had just been named head of state radio and television. Yakovlev had invited in several newscasters who had been barred from the airwaves by his predecessor, the hard-line Leonid Kravchenko, and asked them to put together a new evening news program, with almost no time to prepare. They did, fumbling through news copy and fluffing an occasional cue, but vowing repeatedly to tell the truth and only the truth...
...comrade's room reeks of the past. Above the desk hangs a portrait of Lenin, a treasured gift from Leonid Brezhnev. On another wall is a tapestry of Karl Marx, a present from fallen East German leader Erich Honecker. Elsewhere sit a replica of Lenin's telephone; a wood sculpture from Fidel Castro; and busts of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Gus Hall, aging chairman of the Communist Party U.S.A., calls his New York City office a "museum of history." But among all these historic mementos, Hall is, unwittingly, the prime exhibit...
...Congress passed legislation withholding MFN from the Soviet Union in an attempt to induce Leonid Brezhnev to permit more Jews to emigrate. Largely to spite the U.S., Brezhnev cut exit visas for Jews by nearly two-thirds. Then, in 1980, the U.S. granted MFN to China. Beijing's treatment of its citizens was hardly exemplary, but its defiance of Moscow made it a "strategic partner" of the West...