Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket program; at 32, working in the Nazi rocket center at Peenemünde, he built Germany's V2, which rained ruin on Britain. Caught between the advancing U.S. and Russian armies, Von Braun and his team unanimously voted to give themselves up to the West, also turned over some 2,000 tons of rocket equipment. The U.S. Army, keenly aware of the value of its prisoners, sent Von Braun and about 120 colleagues first to Fort Bliss, Texas, then...
...went, the U.S.-Russia cultural exchange agreement went a good way. But measured against the idea-or even the U.S. Government's original minimum conditions-it left much to be desired. It failed to 1) bind the Russians to stop jamming U.S. news broadcasts into Russia, 2) give the U.S. some minimum uncensored access to Russia's controlled press and radio and television to match the uncensored play Russia gets daily in the U.S., or 3) stop Russia from declaring much of its country off base to U.S. visitors, a ban that is reciprocated...
From Moscow, generous congratulations from Russian scientists came in by phone and cable. Explorer also produced some interesting if unexpected results from the Russians: within four hours after Explorer was in orbit, Moscow telegraphed the International Geophysical Year headquarters in Brussels that data on its own satellites, carefully guarded for the past four months, would be airmailed immediately for all to read...
...area members' plaintive citation of Russian aid to Syria and Egypt, Dulles promised that the U.S. Development Loan Fund would consider favorably any application for loans. Then, to the members' pleased surprise, Dulles promised that the U.S. would put up an additional $10 million to complete the telecommunications net linking the pact capitals, which was launched with $8,600,000 contributed by the U.S. last year...
Exhibits of Despotism. As for the vaunted Russian aid, Dulles pointed out that the Russian figures are misleading, since the Russians count trade in their totals, e.g., the money they pay Egypt for its cotton and Syria for its wheat. On that basis, U.S. aid to pact member countries alone amounted to $2.2 billion last year, and to about $10 billion over a five-year period. This could be compared with the $300 million Russia claims to be giving Syria over the next five years. Furthermore, said Dulles, the Russians have concentrated their aid in areas that have special strategic...