Word: russian
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Sailors with the U.S. Sixth Fleet call it chicken of the sea. It is a seaborne version of the highway hot-rodders' "chicken" that is frequently played in the crowded Mediterranean by Soviet and American warships. Typically, a Russian vessel will dart and weave among U.S. ships, trying to frighten their skippers into turning sharply to avoid collision. These episodes usually end harmlessly-but not always...
...Russian naval authorities have formed a joint committee aimed at trying to control the chicken game, but it remains a hazard of the sea. Navy officials, who released pictures of the Voge incident last week to publicize the continuing gamesmanship in the Med, reckon that the Soviet skipper did not mean to hit the Voge but simply miscalculated. Said one officer: "He just goofed, that...
...major target of Carter's extraordinary public diplomacy is the Soviet Union. The President continues to champion civil and political rights of Russian dissidents. At the same time, he publicly proposed possible compromises designed to break the deadlock in U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks. In his U.N. speech, he called for "strict controls or even a freeze on new types and new generations of weaponry and a deep reduction in the strategic arms of both sides." Then, with a candor unusual in a foreign policy address, he disclosed a possible negotiating fallback position, suggesting "a limited agreement based...
Wide Influence. The attack on Zaïre is the latest-and perhaps most ominous-indication of the fast-growing presence in black Africa of the Cubans, whom former U.N. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan called "the Gurkhas of the Russian empire." Besides the approximately 13,000 Cuban troops and 4,000 advisers in Angola, Western intelligence sources believe that Havana now has military and/or civilian advisers in the Congo (Brazzaville) (2,000), Sierra Leone (200-300), Guinea (300-500), Equatorial Guinea (300-500), Guinea-Bissau (300), Mozambique (500-600), Tanzania (500), Somalia (650) and, for the past month...
Bailey said the judicial system was a game of "Russian Roulette" citing his own brush with the law in a court case in Florida "as a harrowing experience...