Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week, as the President's words were reported, misreported and exaggerated, they detonated on the other side of the Atlantic. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev seized upon Reagan's remarks to try to show that the U.S. was willing to use weapons that would inevitably bring on the holocaust. Said Brezhnev...
During the furor over President Reagan's remarks, Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and an adviser to President and Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, met in Moscow with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof and TIME editors. At one point he speciously compared the presence of 85,000 Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan with the approximately 400 American military advisers in Egypt. But he mainly talked about the threat of nuclear war, angrily denying the validity of Reagan's comment that the Soviets believe a nuclear war would be "winnable. "Excerpts...
...special meaning to those who lead. The most powerful among them know that they too could be snuffed out in a few seconds' time. There is no doubt of the genuine shock and grief felt by Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Some of those who know Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev believe that even as his nation coolly looks for advantage in the tragedy, the old Communist, down deep and for a fleeting second, felt remorse that one of the club to which he belongs had been so brutalized...
...spite of these setbacks, the Soviet planners seem determined to furnish the people with enough bread and to prevent the mass slaughter of livestock for lack of feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
...week to criticize the U.S. decision to make the neutron bomb looks for its inspiration to an old familiar figure who is happily playing a new role. Willy Brandt, 67, is suddenly back in the news, both at home and abroad-going to the Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should...