Word: leonide
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...turnaround has been presided over by TASS Director General Leonid P. Kravchenko, 51, who took up his job 15 months ago, after serving as editor in chief of the trade-union newspaper Trud and as a top official at the state committee for television and radio. Sitting in his walnut-paneled office on the eighth floor of TASS headquarters, located just a few blocks east of the Kremlin, Kravchenko declares that there should no longer be any taboo subjects for TASS reporters. "We are going through our own perestroika here," he says. "I want our journalists to be known...
...Washington and Moscow, analysts felt that the most sensible course for Gorbachev is to back away from brinkmanship and begin negotiations with the Lithuanians, who have all along expressed their eagerness to talk. In a commentary in the Soviet weekly New Times, political columnist Leonid Mlechin wrote, "Cooler heads will not ignore the will of the Lithuanian voters and will start shaping up a mechanism of cooperation with Vilnius. Any option for resolving this problem with force will strengthen the position of those in the republics who believe it is useless to try to reach an agreement with Moscow...
...most extreme, the currently fashionable grumpiness about Gorbachev implies a nostalgia for at least some aspects of the bad old days. Yes, Leonid Brezhnev presided over an era of stagnation, but perhaps that was preferable to the nervous breakdown that the U.S.S.R. seems to be experiencing now. Moreover, when Brezhnev was on the Lenin mausoleum, waving like a rusty windup toy at the troops parading by, there was a predictability to Soviet behavior and a stability in international life that in retrospect are beginning to look good to some...
Nelan's postings in Washington, Hong Kong, Bonn, Moscow and Johannesburg prepared him well for his current position as a senior writer. In crafting the main story in this week's special section on the Soviet Empire, Nelan drew from his experiences in Moscow from 1978 to 1981. Leonid Brezhnev was in charge, and the reforms that Mikhail Gorbachev later wrought were unimaginable then. "I understand the stage on which the recent changes are occurring," says Nelan, "but often I am completely amazed by the script...
...first the couple were banned from traveling abroad and from performing in large cities. But then Senator Edward Kennedy asked Leonid Brezhnev to let them go to the U.S., and they soon got passports. "For me, at 47, life ended," Rostropovich says. "I was born anew on May 26, 1974. There was no continuity. I was truly like a newborn. I couldn't speak the language of the place I was in. I had no place to live. I had no real friends...