Word: pyotr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet Ambassador Pyotr Abrasimov's pithy reports on the progress of the secret sessions ("What is long is good"; "Where there are roses, there are also thorns") have won him a reputation among newsmen as the leading epigrammarian among the Big Four. At the end of last week's three-day session he said only, "No comment." When Abrasimov is ready to be more specific, it may well indicate that a historic agreement has been struck...
...also indications that the Soviet side was straightening out its signals. After last week's Crimean summit talks, where Berlin was a key topic, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker flew to Moscow. There he conferred with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Ambassador to East Germany Pyotr Abrasimov, the Soviet representative at the Berlin talks...
...already too old to be serious contenders for power. No outsider is privy to the deliberations of the Politburo, and members most likely form different alliances on different issues. Even so, Brezhnev's main supporters appear to be Andrei Kirilenko, 64, who acts as his deputy, Ukrainian Party Boss Pyotr Shelest, 62, an ultra-hard-liner, and possibly Gennady Voronov, 60, Premier of the Russian Federation. Arvid Pelshe, 72, the Latvian party leader, and Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 68, are both ailing and might possibly be replaced at the present Congress. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, 68, will probably stay...
...number of people, leaving the vast majority of Soviet citizens untouched, but the identity of the protesters is significant. They include not only famed artists like Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich but also scientists such as Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, Physicist Pyotr Kapitsa and Geneticist Zhores Medvedev. A mimeographed bimonthly chronicle of dissident events circulates among thousands, perhaps tens of thousands...
...Pyotr Abrasimov. the Soviet Ambassador to East Germany, has told Rush on those occasions that the East Germans sentenced Huessy to the unusually long term because they regard him as an especially dangerous provocateur. Even so, Abrasimov hinted, Huessy and the others might be sprung quickly if the U.S. would issue a visa to East German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer to attend the United Nations' 25th anniversary session in Manhattan. Abrasimov also proposed a trade of prisoners, and supplied a list of Communist agents now held...