Word: alexei
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...neat brown bag filled with fresh garbage. Wrapped in plastic under the garbage were classified documents. One FBI agent scoffed at the method as "pre-World War II trade craft." Walker was tracked to a nearby motel, where he was arrested. Seen in the drop area, Soviet Embassy Official Alexei Tkachenko quickly returned to Moscow...
...that particular Tuesday, however, he was bubbling over with a secret. He had the stewards bring in a little "sherry wine" and pour each of his aides a glass. Then he announced that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would soon begin nuclear arms talks, and he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin would hold a summit to seal the deal. That afternoon Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia on their brutal mission of suppression. End of dreams...
...carrying out a high-level shuffle of the Soviet military. The current Warsaw Pact commander, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, 64, it was rumored, had been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev's insistence on greater efficiency in the military. Under Gorbachev, declared...
...NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched as early as 2010. In the highlight of the meeting, sponsored by the Planetary Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, the Soviet linkup veterans, rejoined their Apollo counterparts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand to exchange a few emotional bear hugs and put in their own plug for Mars. "If the decision were taken," Leonov said, smiling roguishly, "I wouldn't object to doing...
...from heaven. Nobody can really blame you for stuffing your pockets, but you shouldn't adjust your lifestyle according to this." Szemberg says increased ticket sales and sponsorship are unlikely to cover the extra cost of the players. Can this reunion last past the NHL lockout? Russian hockey legend Alexei Kasatonov, who now trains teams in New York City, seems to think so. "If a salary ceiling is introduced, then you'll see that the majority of the NHL's Russian players will stay at home," he says. But most are skeptical. Says Anaheim Mighty Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei...