Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than worrying so about Russian power, perhaps we had better allocate a portion of our defense budget to deal with our present invader-Mother Nature...
While obviously irritated by the initial U.S. reaction, the Kremlin to date shows no evidence of being so offended by Carter's declarations on human rights as to endanger an arms agreement. There are some Western diplomats in Moscow who are convinced that the Russian leadership fears the U.S. technological superiority in weaponry and thus may be just as eager as Carter to avoid a new race in arms development. At week's end, TIME Moscow Correspondent Marsh Clark reported that Moscow's U.S.A. Institute was working overtime in an attempt to fathom this puzzling...
...walked down seven flights of stairs and made his way through a noontime snowstorm to a public phone booth. It was by now a familiar routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell the world...
...angered by a series of sharp Carter Administration criticisms of Soviet and Czechoslovak treatment of dissidents. The State Department warned Moscow that continual harassment of Andrei Sakharov conflicted with "accepted international standards of human rights." This was followed by a more moderate statement of support from Jimmy Carter. The Russians evidently decided that they could not ignore comments that they regarded as provocative, and that seemed to signal a new and tougher approach to Soviet-American relations. As if to test the U.S. resolve, the KGB arrested Dissident Alexander Ginzburg in a telephone booth. Hours later the Kremlin ordered...
...situation is somewhat more complicated. The dissidents have indeed become a significant issue between Moscow and Washington, at the very moment that both sides are trying to get arms-control efforts back on the track. But the Russians are also beset by other serious problems at home and abroad. The Soviet and East European economies are strained, Soviet influence in the Middle East continues to decline, and the "victory" of pro-Russian forces in Angola is proving a mixed blessing, because it has led to a new American concern about Soviet expansionism. Besides, a specter is haunting Europe-the specter...