Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the manned bomber will be obsolete. For another. Carter's decision may make it harder to negotiate with the Soviets for a new treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. The reason: by dropping the B1, he is dramatically increasing U.S. reliance on the cruise missile, which the Russians view as the most worrisome threat in the American arsenal. The initial Soviet reaction to Carter's move was frosty. Commented Tass, the official Russian news agency: "The implementation of these militaristic plans has seriously complicated efforts for the limitation of the strategic arms race." Although...
...better chance than the B-52 of getting through Russian defenses. For one thing, it offers a smaller target for existing radar. It is only two-thirds the size of the B-52 (see chart). It can also fly faster and lower (600 m.p.h. at about 70 or 80 ft. above the ground). The B-l also is equipped with the most advanced black-box gear, which sends out electronic signals to counteract enemy warning systems. But critics maintain that when the Soviets develop new defensive weapons, including look-down radar and radar picket planes, like the AWACS...
Moreover, in the face of improved Soviet air defenses, the B-52 can be used as a "standoff' bomber as opposed to a "penetration" bomber. The standoff bomber's mission is to deliver cruise missiles to within range of its targets. It would stop short of Russian borders and fire salvos of missiles to overwhelm Soviet defenses. According to Defense Secretary Harold Brown, all major targets in the U.S.S.R. are within range of cruise missiles fired in this manner...
...manners. A recent article in the Moscow Literary Gazette called for wide distribution of books on etiquette. It observed that in the U.S. and other countries, young members of "bourgeois" society "polish their manners carefully in the family and at elite universities," but in the Soviet Union, the traditional Russian concern for good form "was broken after the Revolution. Polite conventions were disdained as pretentious when vests, hats and ties became petit bourgeois. " Result: "Abroad, some of us are grossly ignorant of internationally accepted standards of etiquette...
...PALM COURT in New York's Plaza Hotel is a very classy place to stop for tea. Impeccably dressed waiters, who click their heels and stride with the stiff elegance of Russian officers in a Hollywood extravaganza, serve coffee in glistening silver coffeepots. Fragments of blase conversations about grand openings and charity balls and Tiffany diamonds drift above the fronds of potted palms encircling the cozy tables...