Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is byzanium? It's super-uranium, only found on one island off the coast of Russia. It will power the Sicilian project, a laser curtain to shield capitalism and democracy from the trigger-happy Bolsheviks. With typical American foresight, a miner dug all of it up in 1912, before the radio, much less the laser, was more than a glimmer in the mind of some scientist. The miner, with somewhat less foresight, set sail a few weeks later on, you guessed it, see the pieces beginning to fall into place, the Titanic. Pretty good plot...
Moscow itself sparkled with freshly painted buildings and manicured gardens. Everything seemed technically right-the food was good, the subways and buses were prompt, even the press center met the demanding standards of Western journalists. "It is a revelation," gushed a Soviet newsman. "The computerization, the mechanization-nothing in Russia has ever been done to such a high standard...
When the U.S.S.R.'s first feminist magazine, The Woman and Russia, called Soviet men irresponsible drunkards, the authorities were dismayed. When the underground publication went on to declare that Soviet society "degrades women to the status of a work animal, a sex object and a breeding machine," they became alarmed. Finally, when the feminists called upon wives and mothers to persuade men not to fight in Afghanistan, the KGB felt compelled to move in on the fledgling women's liberation movement. Secret police agents swooped down on the Leningrad apartments of three editors of the magazine and gave...
...will move Americans to fight--the most common is a fear of Soviet expansion, the spread of Russian communism through military force. "Something has to be done to stop them" was a common refrain all week--when asked, many said they would be willing to go to war should Russia show signs of overrunning the free world. But, bumper stickers to the contrary, young men seem to realize that there are two sides to the Iran "crisis" that is supposed to rescue America from the passive "Vietnam Syndrome." None of them seemed eager to go to war over the hostages...
...seeing one of his movies-until 1964 when he went on national TV to raise money for Barry Goldwater's slumping presidential campaign. Reagan spoke of the U.S. as the "only island of freedom that is left in the whole world" and accused liberals of advocating "appeasement" of Russia. Evans became an instant true believer...