Word: leonide
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looked pale and weak as he stood at the lectern, but Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, 75, was obviously still very much in charge. Standing behind him were senior members of the ruling Politburo, including Konstantin Chernenko, 71, and Yuri Andropov, 68, the two favorites in the battle to succeed him, and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. In the audience were several hundred defense ministry officials and military officers who had flown in from all over the country and even from fleets at sea. Although Brezhnev's speech was frequently slurred, a result of his illness, he did not mince words...
...most important of all was another encounter taking place elsewhere in Peking last week. Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Qian Qichen was negotiating with his Soviet opposite number, Leonid Ilyichev, on how to improve relations between the two Communist giants. China had suspended those negotiations in retaliation for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979. Even before Ilyichev arrived in Peking three weeks ago, the Sino-American relationship was undergoing its most intense growing pains in a decade. The immediate cause of difficulty is a flare-up of the old dispute over the status of Taiwan. More...
...doctors on the program--including Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev's personal physician--agreed that there would be no winner in a nuclear war. "We all came to the same concludion because the medical facts on the effects of nuclear war are the same the world over." Mullen said...
...President noted last week, Moscow has exercised considerable restraint during his term. Even though Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent two letters warning the U.S. not to send troops to Lebanon, he has not yet reacted to the American military presence there. The Soviets also note that they have refrained from giving full support to Central American liberation movements and from directly invading Poland. "Their policy is still oriented toward a relationship with America," Bialer feels. A senior Western diplomat in Moscow agrees: "Some Soviet spokesmen have portrayed the relationship as hopeless, but that is not their real thinking...
Paul M. Doty '50, an arms control expert and member of the Biochemistry Department, said that the Soviet scientists and officials he met with earlier this month had predicted few advances in nuclear arms reduction until the Moscow government chooses a successor for ailing Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev...