Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a scuffle that broke out while he was distributing leaflets at a demonstration in support of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. Indeed, the FBI harbored unsubstantiated suspicions that Oswald might be a Soviet agent and had assigned Agent James P. Hosty Jr. to keep watch on Oswald's Russian-born wife Marina. Oswald's note warned Hosty to stay away from Marina, whom he had interviewed a few days earlier...
Kaptelov has not requested materials from Houghton Library, Rodney Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts for Houghton, said yesterday. "He was surprised at all the Russian manuscripts we had and was very interested in examining them," Dennis said...
...Chekhov's story Rothschild's Fiddle, a Russian wills his violin to a Jew. Afterward, writes Chekhov, Rothschild plays a melody "so passionately sad and full of grief that the listeners weep ... and force him to play it as many as ten times." In Passions, Isaac Bashevis Singer's new collection, all 20 tales recall the earlier story, with its Russian theme transmuted by vibrant Yiddish inflection...
...Oswald. After defecting to the Soviet Union, betraying radar secrets, and attempting to renounce his American citizenship, Oswald had no trouble reentering the U.S. or obtaining a new passport. Welcomed back to the country by prominent members of the intelligence community in New York and by wealthy anti-communist Russian emigres in Dallas, Oswald then surfaced in New Orleans as the secretary of a pro-Castro organization called the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not only was he the only known member of the organisation, out its literature was stamped with the address of an anti-Castro group of Cuban...
...were most CIA agents and Cuban exiles. Kennedy refused to order a second air strike after the first one had been exposed--thus dooming the invasion force to defeat and capture--curtailed subsequent anti-Castro forays, and promised Khrushchev to end all invasion plans in return for removing Russian missiles...