Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phones began jangling in the apartments of 23 American employees of the U.S. embassy in Moscow before dawn one day last week. The anonymous callers were usually male, spoke Russian in a threatening tone and delivered nearly identical messages: "I just want you to know that we are tired of our people in New York getting a rough time, and if it doesn't stop, then you are in for trouble." Toward week's end the embassy itself got a call, announcing that a bomb was set to go off in about 20 minutes. Hastily, three floors...
...Moscow incidents, which recalled a similar wave of harassment in 1971, seemed to be provoked by some anti-Soviet attacks in New York City: a bullet fired at a Russian residence, a bomb blast outside the Aeroflot office and an unexploded bomb found last week in a building housing the Soviet trade organization Amtorg. Though the militantly anti-Soviet Jewish Defense League has been responsible for some earlier outrages against Soviet officials in the U.S., another group called the Jewish Armed Resistance claimed credit, if that is the word, for the Amtorg bomb. While the New York incidents were certainly...
...enigma." A former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and fellow at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Kennan, 72, is now engaged in his most ambitious effort to solve that riddle. With Princeton Colleagues James Billington and Frederick Starr, he has set up the first major center for Russian studies to open in the U.S. in more than a decade...
Company Money. Applications have been pouring in for the first full fellowship program, slated to begin this fall. Among the proposals: studies of Soviet society under Stalin, Russian nationalism, Soviet biological research and 19th century Russian ideology...
Kennan began planning the institute five years ago when he realized that "Russian studies were in for a bad time. Money was drying up; resources and facilities were scattered. Many leaders in the field were dead. It was felt that if I didn't do something, nobody else would." So as not to drain foundation money from existing university centers* for Soviet studies, Kennan approached companies that do business with the Russians, including PepsiCo, Chase Manhattan, Bank of America and General Electric. They responded with enthusiasm-and generous grants...