Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cancel that program. The SS-16 is a three-stage big brother of the two-stage SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile that has upset the military balance in Europe. Late last year, the old SS-16 test site at Plesetsk, near the White Sea in northwestern Russia, was the scene of fresh activity, suggesting that the program might be started up again on short notice...
...high-ranking Soviet official said in an interview yesterday that Yuri V. Andropov's accession to power in Russia would produce no major shift in Soviet policy toward the United States...
...emphasizing that there would be no sudden changes in Russia following the death of Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chertikov said that the U.S. government and press had "tried to read too much into" Andropov's experience as the director of Russia's KGB police service, and his thorough knowledge of the West...
...referred to as Jewish guilt Saddled with the stereotypes of the Jewish Mother and the Jewish American Princess. Jews in America are almost expected to feel ambivalent about their heritage. On the one hand, there is the insecurity of knowing what happened to one's roots in Poland or Russia or Germany. On the other is the desire to take full advantage of a wondrous new world--thus breaking the last link in an ancestral chain--to produce the strange, hidden moral tumult of the assimilated Jew. Add the political movements associated with Judaism and anti-Semitism in today...
...futile hope. In the next decade, Roosevelt and his advisers came to realize that they were dealing with a political system that was not only deeply repugnant to Western values but virtually impervious to Western attempts to change it. Nevertheless, compared with Nazi Germany, "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia seemed by far the lesser of two evils. "I can't take Communism, nor can you," said Roosevelt to Ambassador Joseph Davies in 1941. "But to cross this bridge [i.e., beat Hitler], I would hold hands with the devil...