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Officially, power remains in the hands of the "collective leadership" that succeeded Khrushchev???a collegium whose key figures all along have been Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 66, and President Nikolai Podgorny, 67. Yet Brezhnev completely dominated the Lenin observances. He delivered four major addresses that were broadcast over prime-time television and accorded saturation press coverage. At Lenin's wreath-bedecked mausoleum in Red Square, Brezhnev stood slightly but perceptibly apart from the rest of the eleven-man Soviet Politburo, several of whom have recently reappeared after recovery from reported illnesses. He is the only Soviet leader who has spoken...
...such an unpredict able enemy as the Soviet Union's Khrushchev. As he carefully told the country beforehand, Kennedy's European rendezvous with history were not intended for strategic decision or diplomatic agreement. Instead, his mission was to take personal measure of the man De Gaulle and the man Khrushchev???and to let them take their measure of the young Bostonian who directs the most powerful nation on earth...
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