Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sjevik was steaming slowly 1½ nautical miles outside the Soviet fishing boundary north of the Russian naval base at Murmansk, the cable between the ship and the net it was dragging along the ocean floor 450 ft. below suddenly started rushing off its reel. "At first," reported Sjevik Skipper Ivar Hamnen when he returned to Norway last week, "we thought our net had been snared by the gear of another fishing vessel. But no other ship was trawling in the vicinity. Our ship began moving backward, pulled by an invisible force that was stronger than our engine. Then...
There is no longer a need for Chinese and Irish peasants to build the railroads, or Polish and Lithuanian serfs to feed the fiery machines of our industrial revolution. There are no more small parcels of land thirsting for the magic touch of Swedish and Russian farm hands...
...Aeroflot Flight No. SU 229 prepared to take off from Moscow to Amsterdam last week, Russian Writer Andrei Amalrik tucked his Siamese cat Disa under his arm while his artist wife Gyusel accepted a farewell bouquet of red peonies. KGB agents darted in and out of the small crowd assembled at Sheremetyevo Airport, snapping pictures of the couple taking leave of their desolate friends...
...write a book on political terrorism and to lecture in Holland and the U.S. He also expressed fears for the new crop of dissidents he left behind. The KGB has begun to use "Mafia methods," he said, citing the recent fatal mugging of Poet Konstantin Boga-tyryov, the Russian translator of Rainer Maria Rilke who had protested against Soviet civil rights violations. While the scholar was dying of a fractured skull in the hospital, Amalrik went on, KGB agents ordered the doctors to "fix him so he will come out an idiot," then threatened the physicians when they refused...
...decathlon competition at Munich four years ago, Russian Gold Medalist Nikolai Avilov was still catching his breath when a young man approached him, shook his hand and announced he would take Avilov's crown away from him at the next Olympics. "I took a good look," Avilov recalls. "Just think, a kid who had placed way down the list somewhere [tenth] threatening to beat...