Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...River, which flows through his native town. He has been compared with exceptionally diverse figures: Niccolo Machiavelli, whose name is synonymous with conniving politics; Lorenzo the Magnificent, Renaissance Florence's benevolent, art-loving ruler; Chateaubriand, 19th century France's aristocratic writer-statesman; Alexander Kerensky, who first led Russia to a democratic revolution that quickly succumbed to the Communists. In the bestiary of epithets used to characterize French politicians, he has emerged as the "chameleon." His recondite politics is inevitably labeled Florentine in the press. His most recent biographer, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, described him as "ambivalent." Wrote Giesbert...
DIED. Prince Andrew of Russia, 84, a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II and the oldest known surviving member of the dynasty that ruled Russia for three centuries; in Teynham, England. An heir to the Russian crown, Andrew fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and finally settled in England, where he lived in a luxurious 13th century manor as the head of the exiled Romanovs...
...nation's is likely to do the same. Says Forrest Berghorn, a political scientist at the University of Kansas: "The American spirit is too self-centered to concern itself with this for very long. The space shuttle success is in a class with our hockey victory over Russia." That may be too harsh a judgment; of late there have been signs of a renewed popular interest in space. Yet even those who want a redoubled U.S. space effort doubt there will be a lasting effect from the flight unless a profound change of mood occurs in budget-minded Washington...
...like waterfront tough. During a pas de trois romp with Dancer Gwen Verdon, they hoisted her up onto their shoulders, then discovered that she was facing away from the audience. Said Nureyev: "The great thing about America is that you can laugh at yourself when things go wrong. In Russia...
...speakers emphasized that when the Americans understand that Russia desires world peace and an end to the arms race as much as the U.S., they will force the U.S. government to start disarmament conferences with Russia...