Word: kosygin
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...weeks ago. The Russians, having lost the better part of their $2 billion, decade-long military investment in the Moslem world, also saw their prestige plummet to an all-time low among the Arab states (see THE WORLD). Determined to recoup their psychological loss at least, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his colleagues at this week's emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly faced the difficult task of inveighing against a fait accompli-Israel's shattering territorial gains. Backed into that corner, the Soviets might be expected to lash out with bitter denunciation not only of Israel...
...Kosygin's message was decoded and relayed instantly in Russian from the Pentagon to the Situation Room, where it was rendered into English within minutes. A glance at the rough translation told Johnson what he wanted to know: there would be no face-down between the Big Two. Russia, said Kosygin, did not plan to enter the conflict, but would do so if the U.S. stepped in. Johnson and his aides drafted a reply on the spot, directly assuring Kosygin that the U.S. did not intend to intervene...
...dramatic than New Year's greetings and hourly testing messages. Never before had it been used for communication between the U.S. and Soviet governments in time of crisis. Now, at the cable circuit's terminus in the Pentagon, lines of Cyrillic type sent from Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin began clattering in at 66 words a minute on a teletype machine supplied by Moscow (which has a U.S. machine with Roman characters at its own end). From the Pentagon, the machine maintains continuous communication with the President, wherever he may be. A Russian translator on stand-by duty...
...what was his childhood like; was he really a sadistic Stalinist during the old days as a commissar of the Moscow subway; did his war experiences turn him away from Stalin; did he become a "goulash Communist" only after the showdown in Cuba; why did he permit Brezhnev and Kosygin to ease him out? This book fails to answer those questions, but only Nikita can do the job-and he is unlikely to write his memoirs...
...country must retain the favor of its Soviet neighbor. While this has not meant alliance with the Soviets, it has led to a neutrality that slightly favors them. Kekkonen keeps up his ties with the Russians; few men can boast of having established personal relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin and Brezhnev...