Word: partially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Radio Moscow admitted that moisture conditions in the Caucasus and southern Ukraine were the worst since 1928, conceded that in places a third of the winter wheat was destroyed and would need to be replanted for even a partial harvest. Western agricultural intelligence sources estimated that even with excellent weather conditions for the rest of the year, Russia's 1960 grain harvest is unlikely to exceed last year's 124,800,000 tons (which was down from 1958's record 141,200,000), and might go as low as no million tons...
...Fact of Life. During the Stalin era, that hope seemed completely unrealistic. But during the Khrushchev years, the West has slowly, warily concluded that forces of change are at work in the Red world, evidenced by greater emphasis on consumer-goods production, the partial dismantling of the police-state terror apparatus, the parting of the Iron Curtain to permit travel and cultural exchange. From his recent talks with Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle brought away a firm impression that Khrushchev now feels compelled to take into account a new fact of life: Soviet public opinion...
...oddly enough, there was a feeling this time that some kind of partial agreement might be possible out of the com mon concern over nuclear destruction, and the awesome and imminent new methods of its delivery from the heights of outer space. "Not one, but a thousand swords of Damocles dangle over us," in toned France's Jules Moch gravely as the disarmament talks began...
Last week Komsomolskaya Pravda offered a partial accounting. The Soviet Commission Investigating German Atrocities had taken testimony from one Nina Pietruszkowna, a young Polish interpreter for the Italian command, who said that after Mussolini's fall in 1943, Nazi authorities in Lvov asked Italian troops and officers to swear allegiance to Hitler Germany and continue the war against the Soviet Union, and that those who refused were arrested. "More than 2,000 Italians were arrested, and the Nazis shot them all," she testified. "Among those shot were five generals and 45 officers, many of whom I knew personally...
...intermediate-range Army Jupiter missile was guided 1,500 miles downrange on its final shakedown flight. The Jupiter is now rated operational-four months ahead of schedule-and will soon go on NATO duty in Italy and Turkey. The record of reliable Jupiter in 29 shots: 22 successes, five partial successes, two flops...