1980: Died:Alexei Kosygin TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1980 Highlights
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Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October.