Word: rubicund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that impression was not hard to locate. Along with his energetic new Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbachev was followed closely by aides who have been writing speeches for Kremlin leaders for nearly 20 years. Among them were scholarly, multilingual Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, a foreign policy adviser since 1966, and rubicund Leonid Zamyatin, head of the Soviet Central Committee's international information department since 1978. Zamyatin in particular appeared to confirm that there was a conscious attempt to temper the General Secretary's ebullience. He soon quoted his boss to the effect that "there is no Gorbachev style. Therefore, there...