Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Soviet divisions massed along Poland's borders, President Leonid Brezhnev coolly flew off to New Delhi last week to justify an earlier intervention by Moscow's forces. Addressing the Indian Parliament during a four-day state visit, Brezhnev scoffed at the notion that the invasion of Afghanistan a year ago might constitute a menacing precedent for Poland or any other country. "Opponents of detente," he charged, "are making a noise for all the world to hear about a 'Soviet threat' either to Pakistan or to the countries of the Persian Gulf, or God knows...
According to Brezhnev's principal spokesman on the trip, Leonid Zamyatin, the Soviet President had explicitly told Gandhi that Moscow's troops would remain in Afghanistan "until the end." In a statement written for TIME (Dec. 8), Zamyatin argued that the Soviet army had been dispatched to Afghanistan solely to rescue the country from "interference" by the U.S. and its allies...
...very frank, factual discussion of the basic differences we have. We laid them right on the table without equivocation." Thus did Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois describe his extraordinary meeting last week with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. The conference lasted two hours and 40 minutes, more than an hour longer than scheduled. It marked the first time since July 1979, when Brezhnev met with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, that the Soviet leader has talked in person and at length with a high-level U.S. official. From all appearances, it was a major effort...
...Leonid Brezhnev's cordial meeting with Senator Charles Percy indicated, the Kremlin leaders want to appear willing to improve Soviet-American relations, despite the hard-line rhetoric by President-elect Reagan and his advisers. For political and economic reasons, they would generally like to restore détente-on their terms. But their conciliatory tone also has a propaganda motive: if relations worsen once Reagan enters office, the Kremlin wants to be in the best possible position to blame the U.S. Amplifying the signal Moscow has been sending Reagan, Brezhnev's chief spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, last week released...
Ronald Reagan openly campaigned against the place. The President may find temporary shelter in the roomy house on Pennsylvania Avenue, but when he looks toward green Lafayette Square and creamy St. John's Church, he will not see his home town. One cannot imagine Leonid Brezhnev or Margaret Thatcher mentioning Moscow or London and meaning anything but a place. But when the President says "Washington," he means a force, perhaps his nemesis. What is this city that even Presidents cannot handle...