Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
...encounter concrete cases involving the expression of unpopular ideas. Not so long ago, for example, a national poll revealed that 68 percent of people 25 to 35 years old and 78 percent of all 17-year-olds favored a ban on any statements on radio or television indicating that "Russia is better than the United States" or "Some races of people are better than others" or "It is not necessary to believe...
...Moscow have tried to match charge with countercharge. As the distance separating the U.S. and the Soviet Union has grown wider, those words have begun to echo loudly across the gap. The world last week still heard the shrill reverberations from President Reagan's unfortunate joke about bombing Russia. As the Soviets took full advantage of the incident with denunciations and pious indignation, the Reagan Administration weighed in with yet another affront: the message that it considers the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe to be far from permanent. Amid all this, the level of international anxiety was raised...
When President Reagan quipped on Aug. 11 that he had outlawed Russia and would begin bombing in five minutes, he little suspected that his off-the-cuff remark would bring such a storm of protest. If many Americans had already forgotten, the rest of the world was still talking about a gaffe that seemed to reinforce the worst stereotypes of Reagan as the trigger-happy cowboy President. Even to many in the U.S., the President's rhetoric of late has lapsed into the stark, sometimes reckless-sounding anti-Sovietism that he indulged in early in his Administration and later...
...think the American CIA has now started to suspect our disinformation techniques, and they are responding tit for tat. Did you hear what Reagan said "off the record" before his radio broadcast on Saturday: "My fellow Americans. I am pleased to announce I just signed legislation banning Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Can you imagine the field day the arms controllers are going to have. We could well have to go back to Geneva...