Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that the Angolan people, after having fought 14 years against Portuguese minority rule, will willingly submit to Russian-backed minority rule is to mock the conception of liberation and genuine human progress. The Americans found in Vietnam what the Russians are quickly finding in Angola, a hostile, guerrilla-organized rural majority intent on victory...
...Washington, London and Bonn bureaus contributed files on the Soviet economy and politics. The principal reporting for the story came from Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, whose extensive note taking on Soviet life today began last September, when he joined the American and Russian astronauts who had participated in the Apollo-Soyuz space rendezvous on their seven-city post-mission tour of the Soviet Union...
From his mobile headquarters in southern Angola's arid wastelands, UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi sent out a recorded message of defiance. "We are to continue our struggle," said Savimbi, "because we cannot accept a minority regime imposed on our people by Cuban troops and Russian tanks." Aided by hidden arms caches, Savimbi's guerrillas last week ambushed several Soviet trucks and troop carriers. With seemingly solid support from the 2 million-strong southern Ovimbundu tribe (out of a total Angolan population estimated to be 5.5 million), Savimbi has the potential to thwart M.P.L.A. control over nearly half...
...Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities for food distribution. The distress slaughter of cattle last autumn for lack of fodder will inevitably make meat scarce until at least 1980. The government apparently decided to sacrifice animal feed for the sake of bread, the staple of the Russian diet. But farmers, who are allowed to keep livestock on their small private plots, are buying bread and illegally feeding it to their cows, pigs and chickens. Thus it seems probable that most Soviet consumers will be busy combing the markets for food until the next harvest...
...Karpova's silhouette more closely resembles a sack of potatoes than a royal bird. The house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone of Russian Ballet-as Karpova is called in the program notes-sinks into a deep arabesque penché, her broad washboard chest straining under her satin bodice...