Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...
When Russia called the nations of the Warsaw Pact together for their first full-dress ministerial meeting in 18 months, the avowed intention of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was to strengthen the military command structure of the Red alliance. Brezhnev insisted that the conference be held in Bucharest in order to demonstrate that even the recalcitrant Rumanians could be pressed into a show of Communist unity. Yet when the four-day conference ended last week, the best Brezhnev had achieved was a standoff...
...grinning husband and cracked to De Gaulle: 'This one must have given you plenty of headaches these past few days." "Not at all," responded le grand Charles gallantly. "It went well, very well." Then, while Mme. de Gaulle entertained the ladies, De Gaulle took Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev aside for an intimate chat. Western newsmen goggled at the sight of the burly Brezhnev locking De Gaulle in a bear hug while stressing an important point. "Eisenhower could have had this kind of reception," groused one American. "De Gaulle is just stealing Ike's show...
...establishment of Europe into a fertile whole, instead of being paralyzed by a sterile division, remains France's primary aim. Thus, the understanding between hitherto antagonistic states is above all, according to the French, a European problem." Next morning, in political talks with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, De Gaulle learned that French "understanding" is not the same as Russian...
...both sides of the Iron Curtain other men in other places were pursuing the same vocation, confirming the fact that Europe was indeed in motion. Last month Rumanian Minister of Metallurgy Ion Marinescu visited Paris; Russia's Leonid Brezhnev showed briefly in Bratislava; Czech Foreign Trade Minister Frantiśek Hamouz skipped frantically from Oslo to Budapest to Copenhagen, signing trade agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland...