Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong Turkish Third Army, stationed along the nearby Russian frontier, was pressed into the rescue operation, along with helicopter and air force units. But relief efforts during the first 24 hours were badly muddled. A gasoline shortage hindered rescuers until the government released emergency supplies. Drugs were in chronically short supply. Hundreds of bottles of freshly donated blood were left behind in Istanbul because Turkish airline authorities were unable to provide air transport for delivery. The reason: many of their planes were en route to Saudi Arabia, loaded with Moslem pilgrims intent on making the hadj. Only 400 tents...
...transparently fictitious bomb threat was almost certainly a minor harassment cooked up by Russian officials. It may also have been the latest evidence of Moscow's hardening attitude toward the U.S. While the Kremlin remains basically committed to detente and arms limitation, Russian leaders seem to have embarked on a period of testing in foreign relations, designed to take the measure of Jimmy Carter and the incoming U.S. Administration-especially since Carter in some of his campaign speeches urged a tougher U.S. policy toward the Soviets. A senior American Kremlin watcher feels that the new Administration "will be starting...
...temporary chill on relations with the U.S., they do so with more military muscle than ever before. Moscow has not only been rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, it has also increased its conventional forces so that it is today questionable whether NATO troops would be able to thwart a Russian thrust into Central Europe...
...Explanation. In addition to the Sokolniki Park incident, the Kremlin last week virtually expelled the third-ranking U.S. embassy official, Marshall Brement, a career diplomat, fluent in Russian and Chinese. His Soviet visa was canceled a few days after he arrived in the U.S. on a home leave. Even more significantly, the Kremlin has failed to respond to the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon as the next American envoy to the Soviet Union. The Soviets may be displeased with Toon, a blunt career diplomat, who is an expert on East European affairs and who served two prior...
...part of her professional discipline, Woolf began and sustained a writer's diary, brushed up on her Latin, and undertook to learn Russian. For recreation this intensely introspective yet active woman walked, skated and rode horseback. She managed a town and a country house and, in Nigel Nicolson's phrase, led a "scintillating social life." When she had nothing else to do, she typed manuscripts for her friend Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians) or scurried to raise a fund of ?500 a year to free T.S. Eliot from his job at the bank. Despite this hectic, variegated life...