Word: kosygin
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...good Communist, Premier Aleksei Kosygin could hardly let China fire the only Red missiles against the U.S. over Viet Nam. So last week he turned a friendship rally for Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi into a launching platform for his most violent attack to date on the U.S. involvement...
Avtorkhanov concedes that Brezhnev and Kosygin have granted what amounts to unprecedented concessions to democracy. Russian industry has introduced the profit motive. The Red army, which played a hand in Khrushchev's fall, has been given political rights and powers that, for the first time, crack the monolithic power structure of the state. But Avtorkhanov warns that none of these alterations should give much comfort to the West. Russian Communism, he says, comes perilously near to being self-perpetuating, proof against every perturbation beneath it: "The party apparatus is superior not only to the state but to the party...
...bonhomie that pervaded the Grand Ballroom far transcended anything normally inspired by French champagne and Russian caviar. There in France's Moscow embassy stood Charles de Gaulle, smiling benignly and shaking hands. And there stood Premier Aleksei Kosygin, his ample, blonde wife Klavdia on his arm. Mme. Kosygin pointed at her wryly grinning husband and cracked to De Gaulle: 'This one must have given you plenty of headaches these past few days." "Not at all," responded le grand Charles gallantly. "It went well, very well." Then, while Mme. de Gaulle entertained the ladies, De Gaulle took Kosygin...
...while 500 Leningrad Catholics sang in Latin. In impeccable Russian, he quoted Pushkin on Sankt-Peterburg: "So stand in glory, Peter's city, and stand as invincible as Russia." He plunged into the Leningrad crowds-estimated as high as 1,000,000-shaking hands and dragging a reluctant Kosygin behind him. He swept through the Hermitage, gazing judiciously at Rembrandts and Murillos but discreetly skipping the halls devoted to the Napoleonic wars. He visited the World War II monument at Piskarevskoe cemetery, where half a million victims of the 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad lie buried ("This...
Climate of Détente. Yet the climax of De Gaulle's grand tour proved an anticlimax for those who had anticipated-or feared-immediate and concrete results in the realm of East-West relations. Back in Moscow, De Gaulle met again with Brezhnev and Kosygin to prepare a 2,000-word "declaration of intent." Both sides held firm to their positions on German reunification, De Gaulle refusing to agree to East German recognition and the Russians remaining rigid in their support of the European status quo. Both sides concurred in their earlier demands...