Word: nikolai
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...River Dee at Balmoral was idyllic, but Prince Charles' choice of summer reading decidedly was not. On a recent afternoon during the royal family's annual holiday at their Scottish castle, Charles was snapped as he pored over Victims of Yalta, a grim account by Nikolai Tolstoy (Leo's grandnephew) of the forced repatriation of 2 million Soviet P.O.W.s by Britain and the U.S. after World War II. One Fleet Street scribe joked that between the covers the book might really be The Thousand and One Lusty Nights of Fifi...
...Premier Nikolai Tikhonov filled in for Andropov in what became a rehearsal of the arguments that both sides would exchange throughout the visit. In an attempt to put Kohl on the defensive over Germany's Nazi past, Tikhonov emphasized that the Soviet Union was particularly alarmed by the scheduled deployment of U.S. missiles in West Germany because "it would mean that, for the first time in postwar history, a military threat again stems from German soil to the Soviet people. There is no need to say what that would mean to us." Kohl, whose self-confidence is as solid...
Among the Soviets sent packing were Nikolai Chetverikov, the third-ranking diplomat at the Soviet embassy, who was considered to be the head of all KGB activities in France; Oleg Shirokov, bureau chief of the official press agency TASS; and Vladimir Kulikovskikh, a TASS reporter. Forty of the group held diplomatic passports. Said a member of France's counterespionage agency, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST): "Ten or 15 years ago, the Soviets instructed their young agents that France was no problem. Well, all that has changed. Now they'll have to send their best recruits...
...personify Soviet foreign policy abroad, had been mentioned as a possible contender for the office of Soviet President, which is still vacant following Brezhnev's death. Instead, he will now assume a post on the governing Council of Ministers as one of three top deputies to Premier Nikolai Tikhonov...
...first propaganda salvo came from Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff. In a rare interview, Ogarkov bluntly described the consequences of any NATO missile buildup as "very sad, very bad." The Soviet Union, he told the New York Times, would have to respond to a NATO nuclear attack by striking back directly at the U.S. Declared Ogarkov: "If the U.S. would use these missiles in Europe against the Soviet Union, it is not logical to believe that we will retaliate only against targets inEurope...