Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...values that stand in sharp contrast to Soviet totalitarianism. The President struck both harsh and conciliatory notes. He summoned the allies to a "crusade for freedom" that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." He caused a stir in the hall when he invited Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to speak on American television if Reagan could also address Soviet citizens on TV. At one point, he expounded on the "astounding" economic failures of the U.S.S.R., declaring that "a country which employs one-fifth of its people in agriculture is unable to feed its own people." To some...
...week for relations between Moscow and Washington. The official Soviet press denounced President Reagan's call for a "crusade" against totalitarianism in his speech before Britain's Parliament. After the outbreak of war in the Middle East, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent Reagan an implicit warning over the hot line...
...assess the current state of Soviet-American affairs, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had a two-hour interview in Moscow last week with Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and Brezhnev's principal spokesman. Zamyatin harshly and predictably attacked U.S. policy in the Middle East, criticized Reagan's position on strategic arms negotiations and decried the use offeree - as if the Soviets did not use it when it suited them. But in addition to the familiar Soviet positions, Zamyatin also sent a number of potentially hopeful signals. He indicated that...
...only authorized antiwar movement in Moscow is the Kremlin-run Soviet Peace Committee, which claims to have 80 million members. Last week eleven young scientists and engineers announced the creation of an independent movement. They read an appeal, already mailed to President Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet newspapers, calling upon the governments of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to stop denouncing each other. They asked for an uncensored flow of information between Western and Soviet peace groups. The Kremlin is unlikely to welcome an unfettered peace group, however small and softspoken. But in view of its stentorian approval of peace activists...
...understatement. The enterprise involves two separate sets of river diversions. On the European side of the Urals, the volume of the Volga would be increased by funneling into it the flow of three major northern rivers, the Onega, the Northern Dvina and the Pechora. Officially sanctioned by President Leonid Brezhnev in his speech on agricultural goals two weeks ago, the European grand scheme is scheduled to be launched next year. The rerouting would require the building of 25 dams and numerous pumping stations. As the barriers go up, they would raise river levels a section at a time, until...