Word: czaristic
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...Soviets have a grand design for Africa and the Middle East. In addition to seizing a commanding position on the rim of the crucial oil routes, their goal would be to gain direct access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, a dream that goes back to czarist times...
Rickety pre-war Dodges and Oldsmobiles traveled together with Russian tanks, cannon and the deadly Katyusha rocket launchers, incongruously accompanied by Cossack cavalrymen thrown into battle in their czarist uniforms...
...Czarist Pogroms. HIAS, whose tradition of helping refugees from Russia reaches back to the czarist pogroms of the 1880s, has thus far resisted Israeli pressure. Last week the Israeli government dispatched two top officials, Yehuda Avner and Nehemia Levanon, to a meeting of Jewish organizations in Philadelphia to press its case. Still, no decision was taken on the issue of cutting off aid to dropouts...
...historians to make of the "revolution" that overwrought fashion editors were declaring last week (see MODERN LIVING) after Yves Saint Laurent revealed his fall collection? What mysteries of the Zeitgeist were riding on the mannequins' shoulders? Saint Laurent's muse told him women will now look like czarist imitations of gypsies, booted peasants in $5,000 velvets and taffetas, long-limbed and slightly fantastic creatures. The feminine mystique becomes the feminine muzhik...
...homes, fleets of car pools and squads of security-trained servants for the power-elite." Politburo members and national secretaries of the Communist Party use black Zil limousines, hand-tooled and worth about $75,000 each. A network of unmarked stores caters to the Soviet aristocracy. Its stock: rare czarist delicacies like caviar, smoked salmon, export vodka and exotic wines, choice meats. Those stores also carry foreign goods the proletariat never sees: French cognac, American cigarettes, Japanese tape recorders-all at discounts. Including relatives, Smith estimates, these indulged shoppers amount to several million. Everything is maskirovannoye (masked) -the guilty secrets...