Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANZUS Treaty, which commits Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. to counter regional threats with their own forces, Fraser has ordered a $15 billion increase in Australian defense spending over the next five years. But Fraser also wants the alliance with the U.S. redefined to take account of future Russian actions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Toward that end, he has proposed some sort of four-power Pacific cooperation embracing the U.S., China, Japan and Australia-a form of local détentein Asia...
...chess tournament in Amsterdam was over, and Russian Grandmaster Victor Korchnoi, 45, ranked second only to World Champion Anatoli Karpov, had finished in a tie for first place. But Korchnoi had a private end game to complete: he defected and sought asylum. Tass, the Soviet news agency, quickly counterattacked, accusing Korchnoi of being "obsessed with vanity." In fact, Korchnoi has been in dutch with Soviet chess officials more or less constantly since 1974, when he lost in a semifinal world championship match to Karpov and then complained publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi...
...many other railroads, the Santa Fe spends money heavily on keeping its roadbed in good repair even in bad times. Says Operations Vice President Larry Cena: "You can't just be doing maintenance work when business is good. That's when you need the plant." During the Russian wheat sales boom in 1973, the Santa Fe picked up much extra business from rival roads that lost precious time doing essential repair work to prepare their tracks to handle the traffic...
Before accepting her bronze in the all-around, she bestowed a queenly kiss on the two youngsters who had upstaged but not outclassed her, Comaneci and a bright new Russian face, Nelli Kim, 18. Daughter of a Korean, Kim won two 10s herself from the judges, one in her specialty, the vault, and one in the floor exercise. She took two individual gold medals and one silver, and firmly established herself as the personable, expressive new star of Russian gymnastics...
...opening ceremonies in London. (Nor did the U.S. dip the flag to Queen Elizabeth II last week; she was not offended.) The Finns, then under the domination of Imperial Russia, sought the same year to emphasize their strivings for national identity by refusing to march under the Russian flag. Hitler tried to use the 1936 Berlin Games as a display of the supremacy of the Aryan race...