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Indeed, the Soviets are eager to have the meeting demonstrate that the crisis over Poland has passed. In a conciliatory speech, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov said last week, "The Soviet Union is not seeking confrontation. We are doing everything we can to direct the course of events into constructive dialogue." Haig, mindful of appearing soft on the issue of Polish repression, de-emphasized the talks by saying he would attend only one day of meetings, not the planned two. He also told aides that he would deflect questions of a summit meeting soon between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev...
...costs and a wasteful industrial system. To achieve new growth, it must somehow make better use of what it has. Not surprisingly, Brezhnev devoted two-thirds of his keynote speech to domestic affairs, stressing higher industrial and agricultural productivity and less waste. Speaking later in the week, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov spelled out the guidelines of a new five-year economic plan that aims, among other things, at overcoming chronic shortages of food and consumer goods. In that context, Tikhonov criticized the loss of trade with the U.S., which has dropped by more than 50% the past year...
Thus, in death as in life, Kosygin had been eclipsed by Brezhnev. Still, until he fell ill last year and was replaced as Premier by Nikolai Tikhonov two months ago, he had maintained an iron grip over the vast state bureaucracy that he commanded. World leaders had learned not to judge Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that...
...Stalin. Addressing 1,500 delegates to the biannual session of the Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin, Brezhnev announced that Kosygin, 76, was stepping down "on the grounds of his health, which has recently worsened." To replace him as Prime Minister, Brezhnev formally nominated Kosygin's longtime deputy, Nikolai Tikhonov, 75. The parliament's approval, with a unanimous show of hands, came automatically. Kosygin and former President Anastas Mikoyan are the only top Kremlin leaders who are known to have left office voluntarily...
...Tikhonov, Brezhnev has acquired the nearest thing to a tried and tested yes man. Tall, square-faced and self-effacing, the veteran technocrat has little foreign and defense policy experience; he has been known as a Brezhnev protegé ever since the two studied metallurgical engineering at neighboring technical institutes in the Ukraine in the 1930s. He became deputy chairman of GOSPLAN, the state planning committee, in 1963, a Deputy Premier in 1965 and a full member of the Politburo last November. By then, as First Deputy Premier, he had already become Kosygin's virtually full-time standin...