Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during the '50s and later served as assistant air attache at the American embassy in Belgrade. Scowcroft and his wife Marian now live with their daughter Karen, 17, in Bethesda...
...government and sentenced to death. At the very last moment before he was to face the firing squad, a messenger arrived with a commutation of his sentence to exile in Siberia. When he returned from Siberia, he espoused a mystical sort of slavophilism that stressed spiritual communion with "the Russian people...
...previous activities had alienated the Court; his new creed divorced him from the Russian literary circles, which remained primarily oriented towards utopian socialism and anarchism. Anna describes his love-hate relationship with both the political and literary establishments. He became ecstatic upon reading a favorable opinion of himself in comparison to Tolstoy, and constantly complained about literary "cliques" from which he felt excluded. He cut off relations with a life-long friend who had failed to introduce him to Tolstoy. Towards the end, Dostoevsky cultivated the friendship of Grand Dukes, and expressed his admiration for Tsar Alexander III. The last...
...French visitor was recently invited to lunch with a well-educated Beirut merchant at his home, which was in an embattled Christian neighborhood. The visitor was thus not too surprised to see several Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifles-the most common weapon on both sides-stacked in a corner of the dining room. Lunch was a pleasant affair, filled with interesting conversation; when it was over the host invited his guest to view the city from his roof. There sat a mortar, pointed in the general direction of the battle lines of the day. As the Frenchman watched...
...just one month, Japanese soldiers occupying Nanking during W.W. II raped 20,000 women. Pakistani soldiers raped perhaps as many as 400,000 women as they swept through Bangladesh. German soldiers storming across Russia sadistically abused every woman unfortunate enough to be found. When Russian soldiers reached Berlin they retaliated in kind. Brownmiller's compilation of figures and the transcripts of victims' tales are torture to read. To be forced, once again, to read accounts of the atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam makes one physically...