Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wing, streamlined airframe to produce the F-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational combat jet, which became the workhorse of the Korean War. In the first all-jet air battle, it shot down a Soviet MIG-15, the brainchild of Johnson's Russian archrivals, Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Kelly achieved an even more impressive performance from the Mach 2 F-104 Starfighter ("the missile with a man in it"), which is only now about to be phased out as NATO's dominant plane. Nor did Johnson neglect civilian aircraft; his graceful three-rudder four-engine...
...decision to keep Amalrik in prison is part of a stepped-up Soviet campaign against "liberal" intellectuals. Only last winter the underground journal Chronicle of Current Events was forced by the secret police to suspend publication. Gabriel Superfin, editor of the memoirs of Soviet Elder Statesman Anastas Mikoyan, was arrested last month on suspicion of having helped publish the journal, and Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin have been held in jail without trial for more than a year on related charges. Amalrik was flown to Moscow to be questioned in the case but refused to cooperate-a fact...
...typical, alas, Powers bon mot: When the "three-decker Irishman" from Charlestown met the Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, he asked, "Tell me, are you the real Mikoyan...
Spivak's abrasive behavior toward guests has both pleased and enraged viewers. (He once snapped at Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan: "Don't filibuster; we have only two minutes left.") Spivak denies any malevolence in his questions: "I never try to catch a man. I will never try to trick him." But Spivak will hold a guest's previous public statements against him if he seems to be waffling. "A man had better be prepared to justify or explain his changes of position," he says. Such grilling can exhaust its targets. George Meany, no stranger to rough...
...Soviet elite has been conspicuously represented among the journal's contributors as well as among its subscribers. Former President Anastas Mikoyan's son Sergei, Premier Aleksei Kosygin's daughter Lyudmila Gvishiani, Brezhnev's daughter Galina, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son Anatoly have all written on American affairs for the institute. A frequent contributor himself, Arbatov may write an article on the 1972 election, based on his upcoming trip...