Word: anatoli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, returning from a grueling campaign swing through four New England states, took a helicopter to the White House rather than going to Camp David as planned; reporters speculated that he was meeting secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented...
...Anatoli Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., on his 16-year stint in Washington: "I miss black bread and the cultural life...
That specific tone is admirably captured in a luminous and hilarious revival of the seldom done Marriage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. For the occasion the Guthrie imported Russian Director Anatoli Efros to stage the play, and his work is a marvel. Communicating through interpreters, he seems to have established an intuitive rapport with the cast. The actors get under the skin of an alien culture and, with seamless ensemble work, translate Russian characters and responses in supple body English...
...toward the U.S.S.R. Now there seem to be no attempts to tie the important question of SALT with questions that have no relevance, such as human rights. Almost anything has to be better than last summer [when Washington, among other things, criticized the trial and conviction of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky]. President Carter is more experienced; he has learned from unsuccessful policies. We don't regard him as a weak President. But neither can we call him a strong President. He is a President in the making...
Chess, for the Soviet Union, is not just a game; it is a psychological weapon in Communism's cultural struggle with the West. Thus when World Champion Anatoli Karpov, 27, squared off against flamboyant Russian Defector Victor Korchnoi, 47, for the title and $550,000 in prizes at the remote Philippine resort of Baguio City three months ago, the Soviet chess establishment took no unnecessary risks. To give advice, they provided Karpov with a cadre of talented seconds. To ensure his privacy, they dispatched a crew of grim-faced security men, led by a cigar-chomping ex-KGB prosecutor...