Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week and left his Administration's reply to Haig, who contended in a midweek speech that any such no-first-use pledge would leave Western Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference in New York in June and confer with each other in the process. That is an uncertain prospect in view of Brezhnev's health, and in any case the Administration has made little progress in working out an agreed-upon strategy...
...years, the precarious state of Leonid Brezhnev's health has been a source of worldwide concern. The Soviet President has at various times been reported to be suffering from heart disease, emphysema, leukemia and cancer of the jaw. In public, he has sometimes appeared to be weak and unsteady, occasionally even on his deathbed. At other times, he has seemed relatively fit, meeting foreign dignitaries, delivering long speeches and even traveling to Western Europe...
...nation where audiences assiduously hunt for modern meaning in productions of Shakespeare, the parallels with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and the impending struggle to succeed him are obvious. Says one Moscow viewer: "Not everything today is the way Lenin is saying it should be." Indeed, during a recent performance there was a brief tremor of applause in the balcony when Kalyagin suggested that the post of general secretary should be subject to greater party control...
...physicians from 31 countries--including more than 12 from Harvard's hospitals--issued a joint statement sent to President Reagan and Soviet Party Chairman Leonid I. Brezhnev calling for "the nuclear powers [to] cease all production, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons...
...explain the government of El Salvador, the government of Argentina, of Guatemala, of the Philippines, of south Africa. There is fascism in the world today and America is supporting, financing and subsidizing it... I don't think you can turn your back on Guatemala and say. "Look at Leonid Brezhnev; he's such a bad gay." It's a smoke screen...