Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies required by any future conventional war that are not already prepositioned at depots in Europe will have to be sent by ship. This means that the U.S. Navy will need enough forces to keep the North Atlantic's sea lanes free from the increasingly threatening armada of Russian warships...
...Russians face a delicate diplomatic problem in trying to gain a new client on the Horn of Africa. Too many gestures of friendship to Mengistu are bound to alienate Somalia, which Russia also supplies and which is being wooed out of the Russian orbit by promises of economic aid from Saudi Arabia. Apparently unbothered by such strategic complications, Mengistu is planning an all-out assault on Eritrea, led by a people's militia of 200,000 peasants equipped with cast-off American arms and trained-if that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope...
...also a Communist. He returned from Soviet exile in 1972 and lives in a Basque village in northern Spain. Four of their six children died in infancy; a son Ruben was killed in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. A surviving daughter, Amaya, is married to a Russian general...
...assembly-line worker for Ford of Germany, Schmücker quit school at 16 to go into the plant himself and spent two decades working his way up through the ranks to the top job (with time out to serve as a Wehrmacht lieutenant on the Russian front). Shortly after becoming head of sales for Ford of Germany, he left to take over the tottering Rheinstahl Steel Company, and by designing and executing a major reorganization, made it so profitable that it was bought by the German conglomerate August Thyssen-Hütte. He was enticed to Volkswagen...
Certainly nothing much happens in the Russian provincial military outpost where the three sisters are exiled psychologically as well as physically from their dear beloved Moscow. Boredom, drunkenness, mean gossip and despair are the town's leading resources, and the sisters drown in anguish...