Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mended Ways. But to enforce the law on the first day the Coast Guard could field only 19 ships and 17 planes-all that were available. TIME Correspondent James Shepherd, aboard one of the first-day flights, saw a Russian fleet fishing as usual-but now with U.S. license-about 80 miles off Long Island. He reported: "With their dingy, rust-splotched hulls, the eleven trawlers, floating Stakhanovites fishing for hake, looked like dungareed boilermakers next to the five pirouetting Coast Guard cutters near by. The first day passed off peaceably, as has generally been the case since the Russians...
...keep track of, we're thinking of numbering them." At issue were the Carter Administration's continuing support for Soviet dissidents and its challenge to the Kremlin on human rights. After weeks of smoldering anger in Moscow, and increasingly bitter thrusts at the U.S. in the Russian press, the Soviets' counteroffensive had stepped up-with a vengeance...
Opera Company of Boston, directed by Sarah Caldwell, holds the American stage premiere of Glinka's Russian Folk opera, "Russlan and Ludmilla." Sung in English and performed by Victor Braun, Giorgio Tozzi and Jeannette Scovotti. Orpheum Theatre, Boston. For info...
...special surgical team at New York Hospital, Dr. William Stubenbord routinely performs more than a hundred kidney transplants a year. But there was something special about one of his cases last week. The kidney that he transplanted into a 32-year-old man had been taken from a Russian teenager fatally injured only 48 hours earlier in a Moscow traffic accident...
...better than 50%, yet only twelve hours after surgery, Serrano's new organ had already produced some five liters (5¼ quarts) of urine and seemed to be functioning well. By week's end Serrano was joking that despite his Muscovite kidney, "I don't speak Russian yet." His doctors were equally elated. Rubin, for one, envisioned a day when organs are regularly shuttled across the seas to fulfill needs wherever they exist. Said he: "What better way to bring the world together than through medicine...