Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry Kissinger, who raised his goblet politely, but-with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm-barely touched it to his lips. In effect, China, the No. 2 Communist power, was accusing the U.S., the leading capitalist, of appeasing the No. 1 Communist country, the Soviet Union. It was warning that Russian-American détente could cast a shadow over Washington-Peking rapprochement. Try as he might during his four-day stay in China, the Secretary of State could not get his hosts very far from this single, obsessive topic. Détente turned out to be not just a major...
...been working to end Egypt's dependence on the Soviet Union and bring it closer to the West. He tried to cooperate with former Secretary of State William Rogers in Rogers' abortive peace efforts of 1971, and he went so far as to kick the Russian advisers out of Egypt in 1972. His acceptance of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's interim agreement in the Sinai has, in effect, wedded him to the notion of eventual peace with Israel...
After reconnoitering cloud-covered Venus with eight separate unmanned spacecraft-three American and five Russian, including two Soviet landing vehicles-scientists are now certain that De Fontenelle's Eden is, in fact, more like Dante's Inferno. Its surface temperature is a hellish 900° F. Its atmosphere, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, is at least 90 times as thick as the earth's, producing crushing surface pressures of 1,500 Ibs. per sq. in. Its clouds are laden with sulfuric acid. Yet a major mystery remains: Why has a planet so like the earth in size...
...with hammer and sickle. After deploying a balloon-like French-designed parachute system, the vehicle descended slowly through the atmosphere and made a soft landing. Prechilled in the coldness of space, the probe's instruments survived 53 minutes on the torrid surface-three minutes longer than the last Russian lander. They radioed a flood of data, including the first photographic image of the hidden Venusian landscape-a jumble of large jagged rocks rather than the sandy desert expected by some experts. Said Project Scientist Boris Nepoklonov: "We thought there couldn't be rocks on Venus [because] they would...
Private economists think that the additional purchases will lift the food bills of U.S. consumers little if at all over the next twelve months-partly because the inflationary damage has already been done. The Agriculture Department has estimated that Russian grain buying would raise U.S. food bills 1.5% through 1976; Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME Board of Economists, figures that food prices next July will be 10% higher than last July, and that 3% to 4% of that will be the result of grain sales to the Soviets. But most of that rise is over; "the market already...