Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based organization that keeps track of military arsenals around the world, Kuwait is known to have purchased SA-7s from Russia. The SA-7 is a small, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile that relies on a heat-seeking warhead...
...Marcello males, and the actor finds vibrant life in each of them. In his rich wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years later, reminiscing with a stranger, he is the old seducer whose spirit nearly broke when his heart did. Dark Eyes won Mastroianni the Best Actor prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and, by rights, should earn...
...BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA...
...John Paul is not the only church leader on the move. Last week Dimitrios I of Constantinople (now Istanbul), spiritual leader of the world's 150 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, concluded a historic mission: the first visit since 1589 by an Ecumenical Patriarch to the great daughter church of Russia...
...overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey, the government wants the Patriarch's small church of ethnic Greeks to attract as little attention as possible, and Dimitrios has heretofore shown no urge to travel. Given the long rivalry between the Patriarchs of Moscow and Constantinople, his friendly reception and lengthy talks with Russia's Pimen strengthened Orthodox unity, as well as Dimitrios' influence as "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy. In coming months the Patriarch will visit the churches of five other nations, then meet the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Expected in 1988: a return to Moscow for the millennium...