Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differences between the two sides-some left over from past negotiations and a few new ones-may make any agreement unattainable. The very selection of the chief negotiators symbolizes what has changed since the previous round of talks ended, during the June 1979 Vienna summit between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. Rowny, 65, a retired Army lieutenant general, was the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT n). He opposed compromises made during the talks and quit the delegation in protest on the eve of the treaty-signing ceremony. He then devoted...
...relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In a 1979 article attacking President Carter's restrictions on technology transfers to the Soviet Union, Shultz wrote, "We cannot use trade as a tool designed to alter the domestic politics of other countries." The incoming Secretary also met Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev twice in 1973, to discuss ways to increase trade between the two nations...
...cool round of handclapping after his speech. Said Reagan to aides: "That was a hard audience." In contrast, the delegates had burst into applause two days earlier at one point during Gromyko's address. That demonstration occurred when Gromyko read to the conference a message from U.S.S.R. President Leonid Brezhnev declaring that the Soviet Union "assumes an obligation not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. This obligation shall become effective immediately at the moment it is made public from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly." Brezhnev in his message went on to challenge...
...world leaders were dazzled by Reagan's blue-and-gray plaid, wait until they see the one he has stashed away in his closet. It has the identical cut and pattern, only in brown. White House strategists believe the President should spring it on Leonid Brezhnev in the fall, provided the Soviet leader has recovered his health...
...poverty in the U.S., with a controversial combination of cover billings ("Reagan's America"; "And the Poor Get Poorer"), was castigated in Newsweek's own pages by Columnist Milton Friedman for giving a "most misleading impression." The following week's cover billed the "final days" of Leonid Brezhnev, and based the story on an unconfirmed report of a stroke supposedly suffered by the Soviet President. Said an upset Newsweek staffer recently: "The guy's still alive and planning to go to summit meetings, but weeks ago we buried him." Newsweek's June 7 cover called...