Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rear fuel tank. The West also leads in developing precision-guided munitions (the so-called smart weapons) like the infantry-or helicopter-fired TOW tank killer. Still, very few of these are presently deployed on the front line of defense. NATO officers need not worry as much as their Russian counterparts about the loyalty of their units. Speculates a senior U.S. officer in West Germany: "If you were a Soviet general, would you feel comfort able about Polish, Czech, Hungarian -let alone Rumanian-troops?" (However, pacifism and far-left loyalties in several Western European countries are also a concern...
...after an Aeroflot official in Washington was arrested on a charge of drunken driving, a Pan Am employee in Moscow was accused by Soviet police of the same offense-even though he was cold sober. His case is still pending, presumably awaiting the outcome of the case against the Russian...
...Track Russian Dancing...
...most famous experiment, Lysenko presoaked winter wheat seeds in chilly water just before they germinated, and claimed a miraculous conversion: the seedlings were turned into spring wheat, which matures more rapidly and thus can produce greater yields. By such tactics, he insisted, more crops could be planted under harsh Russian climatic conditions. But while such "vernalization" worked under test conditions, it failed on a large scale. Despite Lysenko's insistence, there was no evidence of any innate genetic changes; he had merely induced a single generation of wheat to mature a little more rapidly...
Died. Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 68, Spanish Foreign Minister from 1957 until his ouster during a Cabinet shake-up in 1969; following a heart attack; in Madrid. Tall and powerfully built, Castiella fought with Franco's Blue Division shock troops alongside Nazi forces on the Russian front during World War II. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Castiella earned a reputation as a stubborn negotiator; he repeatedly drove tough bargains with the U.S. over military-base leases and doggedly-though unsuccessfully-strove to retrieve Gibraltar from British rule. Toward the end of his career, Castiella came under increasing...