Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other respects, Pasternak acted with exemplary, even foolhardy courage, as Ivinskaya makes plain. During the Great Terror of the '30s, he had refused to sign an endorsement of the death sentence meted out to Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other officers. In her memoirs Nadezhda Mandelstam recalled that Pasternak was the only person who dared visit her when her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a concentration camp. Pasternak bravely directed that the royalties for his translations of Shakespeare's tragedies be spent to help prisoners in the Gulag. When prison regulations eased after Stalin's death...
...Kremlin in 1972, Nixon ate Wheaties and smoked a pipe (Americans had not known he indulged). On another journey, Nixon sat with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito on an old bunk bed in the marshal's restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
...upbraid them with a bit of theater. He put on his Commander in Chiefs uniform, complete with medals and sashes, and summoned the chief Soviet adviser. "Who do you see sitting in front of you?" Sadat asked. When the Russian expressed bafflement, Sadat screamed at him: "I am Field Marshal Joseph Stalin, that's who! If those spare parts don't get here immediately, I am going to deal with you the way Stalin did." Shortly afterward, Sadat sent the Soviets to his own version of Siberia-back to Russia...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When his 71st birthday rolled around last week, Brezhnev, who rarely passes up any opportunity to accept honors or congratulations, was nowhere to be seen. In fact, he had canceled all recent appointments. At his last public appearance, at the Kremlin funeral of a Soviet marshal, he was coughing frequently and made liberal use of his handkerchief...
Carrillo then flew to Yugoslavia, hoping to discuss his U.S. trip with Marshal Tito. The aging marshal was too fatigued to see him and begged off, but Carrillo dined with Yugoslavia's No. 2 man, Edvard Kardelj, who was just back from a successful visit to Washington. Next it was off to Rome for talks with Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, leader of Western Europe's largest Communist Party. In deference to Berlinguer, who has been careful not to antagonize the Kremlin despite his own protestations of independence, Carrillo shrugged off the snub he had received in Moscow...