Word: leonide
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...Jimmy Carter criticized detente and claimed he would drive harder bargains with Leonid Brezhnev than Gerald Ford had done. Ronald Reagan, who was contesting the Republican nomination, said much the same thing, only more vociferously. Going into a defensive crouch, Ford passed up a chance for a strategic-arms pact that year and may have cost himself the election...
Their relations deteriorated two weeks ago when Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk announced that he was halting the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Russia. Kiev had pledged to hand over all such weapons by July, but so far, only around half of the roughly 2,500 tactical weapons have been shipped. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin retaliated by creating his own defense ministry, the essential precursor to a separate Russian army. Ukraine then refused to take any part in a unified command structure. A proposal to set up a group of military observers to help resolve ethnic conflicts was rejected...
Yeltsin has already conceded sovereignty to Ukraine in principle. Two months ago, he and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, along with the leaders of nine other Soviet republics, abolished the U.S.S.R. In its place they formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, which is a misnomer wrapped in a contradiction inside a political fiction. After living for so long under the Kremlin, the new states really are not independent at all. Their economies and infrastructures will take years, even decades, to disentangle...
...smuggled out of Poland after he warned that the Soviets were prepared to invade if the Polish government did not impose martial law. Kuklinski had issued a similar warning about a Soviet military action in late 1980, which led the outgoing Carter Administration to send secret messages to Leonid Brezhnev informing him that among the costs of an invasion would be the sale of sophisticated U.S. weapons to China. This time, Kuklinski reported to Washington, Brezhnev had grown more impatient, and a disastrous harvest at home meant that the Kremlin did not need mechanized army units to help bring...
...succession hierarchy and the heads of the military-industrial complex, which feared the lessening of Cold War tensions if a reform agenda was allowed to go ahead. But the superpower was not the USA, and it was not LBJ out to get JFK; it was the Soviet Union, with Leonid Brezhnev preparing to depose Nikita Khrushchev. Coming soon to a theater near...