Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first suggested that the items be listed as I and II Nyet, said the Soviets. Well then, Arabic numerals. Nyet. A and B? Nyet. Next the NNs proposed dashes between the two items. Nyet, said Vorontsov, implying that he was ready to hold the line all summer, since "August holidays are not a Russian tradition...
...easy. The chill that developed between Washington and Moscow when Jimmy Carter criticized repression of Soviet dissidents deepened in March with Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev's brusque refusal to consider the new Administration's pioneering proposals for a sweeping reduction of nuclear weapons. Brezhnev's "nyet," however, put the Soviet Union on the defensive, and Moscow has since been working hard at trying to show it is not stonewalling on arms limitation. Earlier this month, three top Soviet Americanologists visited the U.S. in hopes of convincing Congressmen and Administration officials that Russia was not being obstinate. Publicly...
...days long since gone." The offending movie: Telefon, a U.S. spy flick now being filmed in Helsinki. Cast as a brainy KGB agent who goes to the U.S. on a mission, Charles Bronson is denounced by Izvestia as "the stereotype immutable hero of thriller-type movies." Is Bronson crushed? Nyet. "They must like that," he says. "I understand I'm very popular in Russia...
...Nyet"was the answer to Andrei Sakharov, 54, after he applied for an exit visa to Norway to claim his 1975 Nobel...
Prima donnas, nyet...