Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness, Drury must have spent at least half an hour revising the plot of his past novels to fit this new setting. Gone is the Russian threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to the Egyptian royal dynasty, stemming from the machinations of a priestly cult bent on weakening the Pharaoh and aggrandizing a mysterious golden idol. But lest his fans grow confused at this radical turn of events, he has obligingly included the familiar signposts that dot his other works: the danger of growing unrest...
...THAT ONE can blame them. Indeed, eternal mummification would seem the easy way out of Drury's world, where not a day can pass without some new crisis or disaster threatening to topple the foundations of civilization. Whether the threat comes from the subversive Russian agents of Drury's earlier works or the dangerously unbalanced religious cultists of A God Against the Gods makes little difference. All Drury's worlds are the same. No matter what the time or place, one can always be sure that his heroes will be hard at work to save the world from the dangers...
Connally noted that there had been periods of isolationism after both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietnam wars. The Russian launching of Sputnik broke the isolationism of the '50s, he added, beginning a successful American struggle for technological superiority...
...Geneva, at the Third World-dominated U.N. Commission on Human Rights, U.S. Delegate Allard K. Lowenstein proposed that the organization request information from the Soviets on the arrest and detention of dissidents. In response, the Russian delegate, Valerian Zorin, launched into an angry hour-long diatribe against the American's "illegal abuse of the commission's authority" and warned that "inventing pretexts for defending human rights is not conducive to positive development of Soviet-American relations...
...quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left Carrillo almost out in the cold...