Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eugene Demchenko, a graduate student and Russian refugee, will lead Harvard's venomous defensive line. "Running into him is like running into a fire plug," said Wilson proudly before practice...
During their scrimmage yesterday, Demchenko innocently batted one teammate ten feet off the field. Wilson jogged happily onto the sideline. "You see what I mean," he said, his eyes alight, "When the Russian touches you, you're touched...
...learned to read at age two" --the official biography says he was three. And she told me that John Birch, who was a fundamentalist missionary to China in the early 1940's and later became an intelligence agent for Gen. Clair Chennault in China, was "ruthlessly murdered by the Russian Communists in 1945." Welch's definitive Life of John Birch (1954) says that the "bloodthirsty killers" were Chinese Communists...
Flimsy Charade. In light of Angola's rich resources, it is no surprise that parties other than the warring independence movements are deeply involved. The Russians have helped make the 30,000-man M.P.L.A. army the best-equipped of the three forces, providing it with ample supplies of rockets, heavy artillery and missiles (including the hand-held SA-7 to deal with air strikes). Russian technicians, as well as some North Vietnamese, have arrived in Angola, and at least 400 Cubans are serving in combat with the M.P.L.A. as advisers. (The Cubans tried to pass themselves off as mulattoes...
...plot of The Government Inspector is deceptively simple. The mayor of a small Russian town-his name, Anton Antonovich Skuoznik Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency-has received a letter indicating that the equivalent of an IRS investigator has been dispatched from the capital to examine the town's fiscal books. Since the mayor (George S. Irving) and his cronies are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably distressed...