Word: nikolais
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day Kissinger made another major concession: Viet Cong participation in a mixed tripartite commission to oversee new elections after a ceasefire. The Soviets were suddenly impressed with the U.S. determination to make peace. Brezhnev agreed to send Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny to Hanoi to urge resumption of the secret Paris talks. An elated Kissinger told his aides that "the Russians are going to help...
...tritium with a powerful pulse of laser light, they cause the explosive evaporation of the pellet's surface. As the material sprays off, the rest of the pellet implodes. The hydrogen nuclei are thus forced together. As early as 1968, a team of Soviet researchers under Physicist Nikolai Basov, a Nobel laureate, reported that they had used lasers to ignite a brief but clearly detectable fusion reaction. Since then, their experiments have been repeated-and improved upon-in a number of countries, including the U.S., France, Britain and West Germany. But scientists are not yet certain that the burst...
Before Nixon left Washington, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said that substantive talks with the foreign leaders assembled in Paris for Pompidou's wake would be "inappropriate." But meetings were requested by six visiting government leaders (among them Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny), and Nixon naturally enough honored the requests. The meetings offended some French sensibilities. Complained Le Monde in an editorial: "It was a President under reprieve who stole the show from a dead President." Nonetheless, his aides pointed to the sessions as evidence that world leaders look on Nixon as vital...
...painful bout with what is suspected to have been multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow). At week's end, nearly 70 of the world's leaders, including Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the Duke of Edinburgh, flew to Paris to pay him final tribute. There, in the Gothic splendor of Notre Dame Cathedral, Francois Cardinal Marty, Archbishop of Paris, celebrated the memorial Mass. Among the dignitaries was President Nixon, who stayed...
...Baron Nikolai, a suitor of one of the sisters, says "How well I understand this craving for work. I've never done a stroke of work in my life." In Olivier's production the line is tragicomic. In the City Center production it is a little joke--some sort of Freudian slip--that only a foolish and insensitive man would make. Natasha, the wife of the sisters' brother, steals a lot of laughs in the City Center version by being so unremittingly vain and petty, but she's stealing from the sensitivity of the play...