Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Papandreou, any glimmer of improved Soviet-Greek ties is an important bargaining chip in his jousting with Washington. Yet the Soviets were cautious in dealing with Papandreou. After meeting with him in Moscow, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Greece's positions on disarmament were close to the Soviet Union's, but they refrained from harsh attacks on the U.S. or NATO. So, for once, did Papandreou. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets have behaved quite subtly. They're hoping to exploit Greece's differences with its allies, but they know if they push...
...small Soviet passenger liner Baltika from Kaliningrad to New York with Khrushchev and the leaders of several other socialist countries. At age 29, an anonymous foot soldier of Soviet diplomacy, I had the extraordinary opportunity of being assigned to work with the head of our party and the Premier of our country on what was to be a major presentation on decolonization and disarmament to the U.N. General Assembly...
Zamyatin told me that the Vienna meeting had amounted to no more than the two heads of state taking each other's measure. The Premier, Zamyatin said, had concluded that Kennedy was a mere "boy," who would be vulnerable to pressure. "At present," he continued, "Nikita Sergeyevich is thinking about what we can do in our interest and at the same time subject Kennedy to a test of strength...
...Berlin Wall crisis four months later further confirmed this view. At the end of 1961 I attended a meeting in the office of Khrushchev's personal assistants. Someone remarked that Khrushchev, to put it mildly, didn't think very highly of Kennedy. At that moment, the Premier entered the room and immediately began to lecture us about Kennedy's "wishy-washy" behavior, saying: "I know for certain that Kennedy doesn't have a strong backbone, nor, generally speaking, does he have the courage to stand up to a serious challenge...
...appeared to get a powerful endorsement last month: the official Communist Party daily, Pravda, listed him as one of four candidates to represent Moscow districts in elections for the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet, or parliament, of the Russian Republic scheduled for Feb. 24. The other three candidates: Chernenko, Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, and Politburo Member and Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin...