Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-American sentiments all over the Mideast and South Asia would explode into violence, perhaps toppling a few shaky regimes and turning Third World condemnation of the Russians (for Afghanistan) and Iran (for hostage-taking) into condemnation of America. And a coordinated Western trade embargo towards Iran and Russia is not really possible. Europe and Japan need the oil, the market for technology. How will economic suicide teach the world we mean business...
...barren moonscape of a land at the "crossroads of the world," and to its proud and savage people. Conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. and by Genghis Khan in the 13th century A.D., Afghanistan in the Victorian era served as a buffer between Imperial Russia and the British raj. The Afghans accepted it all, but they exacted a bloody price. For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan...
...today's anti-Americanism is founded on a misperception. The U.S. is not so weak as many in the world - or in America - take it to be. The nation remains militarily, economically and morally powerful - in the aggregate, far more power ful than Russia. The problem is not lack of strength but a bewilderment of will. The U.S. must decide how its strength should be applied, and if it is willing to pay the inevitably high price for applying strength. French Author Louise Weiss believes that the present American predicament began in "a search for a false popularity...
...sanctions but still support the way Carter is dealing with the situation. One Cambridge resident, dismissing military intervention as a solution, said, "Economic sanctions probably won't be effective, but what else is there?" A Northeastern University student said he has mixed feelings about the grain embargo imposed against Russia but said he was generally impressed with Carter's handling of foreign policy...
...peasant huts, is a breathtaking evocation of Gogol's stories, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. So many Russians of genius spent their childhoods in such manor houses, with their colonnaded porticoes and vast, cool rooms teeming with relatives, family retainers and hangers-on. Nearly all of Russia's 19th century writers were members of the much maligned gentry, and their fiction is full of portraits of country squires doing what they do in these photographs, picnicking under the birches, hunting bear, playing whist or idling away time. Though many landowners were deeply in debt, as they complained...