Word: mikoyan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volunteered to "mediate" Sino-Soviet differences, while back in Bucharest, Russian bookstores were being closed, and Russian was dropped as a compulsory language in the schools. The Rumanian press quoted liberally from Chinese diatribes against the Soviets. The Kremlin bit its lip and wangled an invitation for President Anastas Mikoyan to attend Bucharest's celebration of its 1944 "liberation." Otherwise, China's representative would have had the show all to himself...
Neither Brezhnev nor Kosygin can as yet be certain of his job, and behind each, among the other oligarchs, stand any number of potential replacements. One major contender is gone-ailing Frol Kozlov, 56, whose name suddenly disappeared along with Khrushchev's from official pronouncements. President Anastas Mikoyan, 68, though shunted into the role of greeter last week, is still the man with the best balance in the Soviet Union, having survived every change of leadership since the fall of the Czar...
Right behind him is Mikhail Suslov, 61, whose icy, opportunistic command of ideology had seen him through Stalin and Khrushchev and firmly into the new era. But Mikoyan may be too old and Suslov too frail (he suffers from a chronic kidney ailment) to rate much of a chance among the hustlers in the Soviet Union today. Not so Nikolai Podgorny, 61, a hog-healthy Ukrainian protege of Khrushchev's who managed many of his most delicate foreign and agricultural projects, and Dmitry Polyansky, at 46 the "baby" of the Presidium but one of its canniest opportunists...
...latest space heroes, three cosmonauts whirling high above the Black Sea resort where their leader was vacationing. He congratulated them warmly, told them to keep in good shape for the huge reception planned on their return to Moscow, then uttered an eerily prophetic goodbye. "Here is Comrade Mikoyan," Nikita chortled. "He is literally pulling the telephone from my hands. I don't think I can stop...
...Black Sea, as he liked to, to relax, while also tending to a little business and receiving occasional visitors. Thus the West has a witness to at least part of the story. In the morning after his talk with the cosmonauts (see SCIENCE) and his prophetic crack about Mikoyan, Khrushchev received France's Atomic Science Minister Gaston Palewski. In the midst of their conversation, a messenger burst in. Nikita excused himself, as the minister later recalled, explaining that he had to return to Moscow "for the cosmonauts." Then he disappeared into the dusk of a typically Byzantine-Communist blackout...