Word: cordially
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When Alexei Kosygin resigned as Soviet Premier last October after more than 40 years of service to the state and the Communist Party, no honors or tributes were bestowed upon the veteran leader. Among the 14 other Politburo members, only Leonid Brezhnev was moved to acknowledge "cordial gratitude" to Kosygin. Even that faint praise came after international surprise over Kosygin's unceremonious exit from power. Last week news of Kosygin's death of a heart attack in the Kremlin hospital was treated in more generous fashion. A day and a half after the event, the Soviet government...
...Leonid Brezhnev's cordial meeting with Senator Charles Percy indicated, the Kremlin leaders want to appear willing to improve Soviet-American relations, despite the hard-line rhetoric by President-elect Reagan and his advisers. For political and economic reasons, they would generally like to restore détente-on their terms. But their conciliatory tone also has a propaganda motive: if relations worsen once Reagan enters office, the Kremlin wants to be in the best possible position to blame the U.S. Amplifying the signal Moscow has been sending Reagan, Brezhnev's chief spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, last week released...
Robert Barrett, Ford's chief of staff, escorted his boss down one flight of Stairs from the former President's 70th-floor Plaza suite. Reagan was more than cordial to Ford as they met for 65 minutes. For the first time, Reagan revealed that he wanted to try once more to coax Ford into running with him. He had been alerted by aides weeks ago that Ford cronies seemed to be sending signals of a reviving interest on Ford's part, and his initiative was far from a deadline impulse inspired by the mood of the convention...
...with Reagan. He and his campaign-manager-to-be, James Baker, paid a courtesy call on Reagan in California in 1977 to inform him that they were setting up a committee to explore a Bush run for the nomination. Baker recalls that Bush and Reagan chatted for a "very cordial 30 minutes...
...home-rule plan. An official statement from Dublin welcomed the discussion of "possible solutions" but insisted on "closer political cooperation between the British and Irish governments" on the Ulster question. Some measure of cooperation actually began in May, when Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles Haughey had a cordial meeting with Thatcher, at which the two leaders agreed to hold regular consultations. At that time, Haughey insisted that the Republic did not seek to annex the six northern counties "by force." He suggested that his government would even be willing to change certain articles of the Irish Constitution, such...