Word: armenia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seconds later, a Soviet army vehicle roared up to their plane. Scherrer and his companions suddenly realized the extent of their error. They had landed at Leninakan, 20 miles inside Soviet Armenia...
...talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course on a flight in Turkey and was forced down by MIGs in Soviet Armenia (TIME...
...Andrei Gromyko, President Nixon was quietly handed a bulletin torn from the White House wire-service printer. It quoted an announcement from Tass that Russian authorities were detaining four men, including two U.S. generals, whose plane had crossed the Soviet-Turkish border and been forced down in Armenia. Compared with the Middle East, Berlin and other problems the two men were discussing, the incident seemed minor. Yet by last week, for reasons that still mystify Washington, the Kremlin had blown it up to an episode of major proportions...
...note of sudden drama was injected into the meeting when Nixon was informed by an aide that a light aircraft carrying two U.S. generals had strayed across the Turkish border and made an emergency landing in Soviet Armenia. The President immediately told Gromyko that he hoped the generals, their pilot and a Turkish liaison officer would be released quickly. Gromyko responded that the Soviets would take the "necessary steps" to investigate the incident, which was apparently caused by bad weather. At week's end the foursome, including Major General Edward Scherrer and Brigadier General Claude McQuarrie Jr., remained...
...Restaurant is described by the UCA people as an "international farmhouse cookery" encompassing food from France, Greece, and Armenia. But UCA is quick to point out that the culinary aspects of the Restaurant are by no means its most innovative aspects. The theme of the Restaurant is "brotherhood," and UCA sees dining as a group experience. What this means is that dinners will be served only for groups dining together. If a single individual or couple comes in, he or they will be seated with others to make up groups of four (for luncheon) or eight (for dinner). Since portions...