Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LANE KENWORTHY '86 TOLD his friends freshman year that his trip to Russia with the United States Junior National soccer team was "fine...
...Soviet Union primarily to see her two older children, Joseph and Yekaterina, who were 22 and 17 when she left them in 1966, and her two grandchildren. She claimed that the Soviets directed the script for her return press conference. Said she: "They made me write texts in Russia, which they all approved. I felt very awkward. I wanted to say simply, 'I came to join my children...
...Robert Sims, the chief Pentagon spokesman, vehemently denied a Soviet foreign ministry spokesman's assertion that Russia had received information indicating that five American planes were destroyed or damaged in the bombing raids last week against Libya...
...clarity of The Siege stems from its strong attachment to Western intellectual values. The book is also in the best tradition of readable historical narrative. O'Brien recounts the varieties of 19th century anti- Semitism in Europe and Russia. He follows the emergence of leaders like Theodor Herzl ("I shall be the Parnell of the Jews") and Chaim Weizmann, who successfully lobbied Britain to pass the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to help establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The document was an important seal of approval for Zionism, although His Majesty's government had ulterior motives. Among them...
...contents. Occasionally, the allegory weighs down the improvised of the rest of Incantation with its hammering message. At one point, a baby named "Liberation" is born to its joyful peasant parents, only to be taken away and symobolically torn in half by forces representing the United States and Russia...