Word: chaika
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset, the negotiations appeared to justify Kissinger's optimism and confidence. Since this was the Secretary's sixth trip to Moscow in two years, the Russians were sure-handed in orchestrating what they now call Operatsia Kissingera. Sleek convoys of Zil and Chaika limousines flowed between the Secretary's guesthouse in the Lenin Hills and the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. Tables groaned under caviar, salmon, sturgeon, steak, beef Stroganoff, fruits and Georgian wines. There was even a special celebration for Kissinger's daughter Elizabeth, who was traveling with her father and who turned...
...frequent travels abroad. Plainly enjoying the effusive Latin welcome, he traded warm abrazos with Castro, and waved continuously on the 25-mile motorcade into Havana from the back of a pale gray open Zil convertible that had been shipped from Moscow, along with a fleet of black Chaika limousines...
...Havana airport to the capital, as many as 500,000 people trucked in from farms and outlying villages cheered him and waved flags. Foreign diplomats in Havana could not remember the last time that Castro had ridden in an open convertible as he did with Kosygin (in a green Chaika, a gift from the Soviet Union); these days he usually travels in a closed car with two escort vehicles, all bristling with machine guns. "We passed a huge mural of Che Guevara," reported Correspondent Stevens of the motorcade from the airport. "A year ago there had been a companion mural...
Herbert Schnabel's tastes run to handmade gold cuff links. He drives a Soviet-built Chaika, the same make as Communist Chief Walter Ulbricht's. He probably earns about $125,000 a year (before stiff taxes) as president of Lucie Kaiser K.G., near Leipzig. East Germany's largest semiprivate women's fashion firm, it employs 370 workers, has annual sales of $3,000,000 and exports 65% of its product, for which Schnabel has won the Medal of the German Democratic Republic. Schnabel dates his prosperity from 1960 when, to raise capital for expansion, he sold...