Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostility toward the military that grew out of the Viet Nam War has ebbed. At the same time, Congressmen, like their constituents, have become suspicious of the Soviets. Among the reasons: the accelerating Russian arms buildup, Soviet intervention in Angola and stagnation of the SALT talks to limit nuclear weapons. Complains Robert Sherman, an aide to two congressional critics of the Pentagon: "The House has been hopelessly spooked...
...that on Oct. 13, the Russians dispatched nuclear warheads from Nikolaev?the naval base at Odessa?to Alexandria, to be fitted on Russian Scud missiles already based in Egypt. The U.S., in turn, detected the Soviet warheads as the ship carrying them passed through the Bosphorous on Oct. 15 and issued a warning to Moscow by means of a world military alert...
Herlihy, who specializes in medieval and early modern European social and economic history, is on leave this year living with his family at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. He and Patricia Herlihy, a research assistant at the Russian Research Center, will replace F. Skiddy von Stade '33, who retires as Mather House master and dean of freshmen this year...
Towards the end of their feature, the three describe the type of person college breeds. "Who but soigne college graduates could summon the requisite poise to carry on an extemporaneous discussion of Marxian dialectics, gesticulate emphatically with a lit cigarette (preferably a Sobranie Black Russian), and punctuate his remarks with a polite sip from his drink (Wild Turkey on the rocks or some Pernod)?" they...
Pipes said that the Soviet Union is moving toward a harder line vis-a-vis the U.S. "The carrot and the stick has been knocked out of the hands of the U.S., leading to a more brazen Russian expansion throughout the world," he added...