Word: maltsev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second period saw the Soviets regain the lead on a power-play breakaway goal by Aleksandr Maltsev, but they could go no further. The Americans, though behind, never panicked and stuck to their scrappy style. They played their game, and--charged with the chants of "USA! USA!"--it sufficed...
...immediate U.S. response. Neither verbal outrage nor diplomatic pressure would suffice. Indeed, when before Christmas Soviet forces were detected massing for a possible Afghanistan invasion, Ambassador Watson delivered several warnings to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. They were ignored until Christmas Eve, when Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Maltsev coolly informed Watson that the invasion was about to begin. Said a senior U.S. planner: "There wasn't anything we could have said at that point that would have deflected them...