Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Israelis and Russian Jews in Israel are disturbed by their government's tough tactics. So are some American Jews who are normally sympathetic to Israel's needs and desires. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the chairman of the influential Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, last week pointedly declared that "the main priority is to save Jews no matter where, and the first priority is getting them out of the Soviet Union." Remarked Author Irving Howe: "We didn't campaign to 'let our people go' only to Israel. The central moral and humanitarian issue...
Once there was Beau Geste featuring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward and la gloire. Now there will be a Chinese priest from Ireland named Father Shapiro, a black White Russian called Booker T. Dostoevsky and a rampaging Arab called Abdul the Disgusting. The ridiculous new version, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, stars Michael York in the title role, Marty Feldman as his twin brother Digby and Ann-Margret as the pair's libidinous stepmother. For the skew-eyed Feldman, who co-wrote the script, The Last Remake offers his first chance to play director as well...
Servants of the czars used roe of lesser quality to polish up the royal shoe leather, while their masters downed the finer grades with vodka. Today Russian caviar commands princely prices in leading restaurants (up to $20 an ounce) and graces gourmet tables the world over-though rarely in the Soviet Union. Because of Moscow's need for hard currency, most of the 96 tons of gray-black sturgeons' eggs it produces annually are exported, bringing $5.9 million annually to the Kremlin's coffers but leaving little chance for the ordinary Russian to enjoy his national delicacy...
...trying to find a suitably cheap, protein-based caviar substitute for more than a decade. Most sturgeons-huge fish that can weigh more than 1,000 lbs.-are caught in the Caspian Sea. But as a result of a drop in water level and rising industrial pollution at the Russian end of the sea, the Soviet sturgeon catch has been dwindling, while Iran's production has remained steady. After experimenting with other possible bases for a caviar substitute, the Russian chemists settled on casein, a protein found in curdled milk. Explains Chemist Vladimir Tolstogouzov: "Soybean protein is cheaper...
...ever fielded, and claimed more victims than bronze spears, muskets or machine guns. From 1803 to 1815, Napoleon lost more of his men to typhus than he did to bullets or bayonets. During the Crimean War in 1854-56, disease killed ten times as many British soldiers as did Russian cannons. Even at the turn of our present century, British combat deaths during the Boer War were only a fifth as high as losses due to disease. Indeed, it was not until the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, when the Japanese introduced inoculation, that military casualties from disease began...