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...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...
Thus was dissipated a wave of speculation about the possible retirement of the dry, dour Kosygin, regarded as a leading exponent of reform at home and restraint abroad. In recent months, Kremlinologists have professed to divine signs that the 62-year-old Premier might be in failing health and weary of the job. Instead, Kosygin was unanimously re-elected by the delegates on the first day, along with some of the other members of the collective leadership that took over from Nikita Khrushchev almost two years ago: among them President Nikolai Podgorny and First Deputy Premiers Kyrill Mazurov and Dmitry...
Delay & "Democracy." Nor was there any hint of change in Soviet policies. The session rubber-stamped a proposal originally made by Brezhnev that the regime be "democratized" by increasing the number of the Supreme Soviet's standing committees from three to nine-which in substance meant nothing. Kosygin revealed no fresh policy to cope with Russia's lagging economy; instead, he disclosed that the new five-year plan, scheduled to have gone into effect last January, was still not ready, possibly because of wrangles over a new pricing structure designed to permit limited fluctuation in response to supply...
...both sides to stop shooting without losing prestige. She had been allowed to make her pitch over the Russian television network, where she echoed the U.S. argument that the Vietnamese people "must be left free to decide their own destiny without interference from out side forces or pressures." But Kosygin was not catching it. Without mentioning his Indian visitor by name, he told the 2,000 guests assembled in the Great Kremlin Palace that such arguments for a face-saving peace were "absurd." "It is not for us to be distressed over the decline of United States prestige," he proclaimed...
Accusing the U.S. of "vandalism and barbarism on an international scale," Kosygin repeated the old pledge that Russia was prepared to send "volunteers" to fight in Viet Nam if Hanoi called for help. So incensed at the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam had the Kremlin become, in fact, that it pulled the 123-man Russian team out of an international track meet scheduled for this week in Los Angeles. Such were the atrocities, said a terse Kremlin announcement, that Russia obviously could not "take part in a match with athletes of a country from which this aggression comes...