Word: byelorussia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, summitry speculation had provided considerably more suspense than the all-too predictable Middle East debate in the General Assembly. The meeting in Glassboro only heightened the atmosphere of unreality at the U.N.'s glass house. Even as Johnson and Kosygin met, Byelorussia's Tikhon Kiselev was railing in the General Assembly against the Israeli "reign of terror" in Arab lands...
...unpaid layoff of 30 days. The problem has become so serious that for the first time it is being openly discussed in the Soviet Union. Kitchen Gardeners. Primed by a high postwar birth rate and changes in the Soviet economy, unemployment has become particularly bothersome in Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Siberia and in the Central Asiatic Republics. Partly to blame is that old Western bugaboo, automation. When, for instance, Red planners automated the lime and asphalt plants of Leninsk in Tula province, they put half the region's unskilled laborers out of work. The Soviet Union also has a rising...
Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...
...Russian press had indeed been digging into economic stories, he said, but without enough analysis or concrete suggestions for improving the system. After all, he reminded his readers, they had a perfect journalistic model to copy: father-in-law's notes on farm specialization in Byelorussia...
...diplomatic and other policies. Foreign affairs would be under the new U.A.R. government, and embassies abroad would be merged. The U.A.R., however, may try to hang on to its three United Nations seats in much the same way that the Soviet Union controls the votes of the Ukraine and Byelorussia...