Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vientiane, the administrative capital, Russian is now heard almost as much as French, the language of the country's colonial rulers for 60 years. Soviet advisers are often seen riding side by side with Communist Pathet Lao officials, looking even bulkier than usual beside the slight Laotians...
Even though he rated the Soviet Union as more of a Cambodian friend than the U.S., Sihanouk rejected Russian and North Vietnamese proposals to set up a collective security system for Southeast Asia. "We want to be very neutral, very independent and non-aligned," he said. "We do not want to be associated with our neighbors in a regional or Indochinese federation. Each Asian country should alone assume the responsibility to safeguard its security. The security of Asia must be achieved by Asians, not by Europe. The Soviet Union for us is in Europe...
...plants-Painesville, Ashtabula and Avon Lake-bore more children with birth defects and other malformations than women in other communities in the state; laboratory research has shown that vinyl chloride can cause chromosomal damage in humans. Anesthetic gases also appear to be teratogenic, or capable of causing birth defects. Russian, Danish and U.S. studies all show a high miscarriage rate among women anesthesiologists and operating-room nurses...
Died. Julia Grant Cantacuzène, 99, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Washington, B.C. The daughter of Grant's oldest son, Major General Frederick D. Grant, Julia was a lively brunette beauty of 22 when she met a dashing Russian prince, Michael Cantacuzène, during a holiday in Rome in 1899. They were married that fall and set up housekeeping on his 80,000-acre estate in the Ukraine, but the idyl ended suddenly in 1917 when the Bolshevik revolution forced them to flee to the U.S.-she with her jewels, including the ring...
Said Trans World Airlines Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., in a burst of metaphor mixing: "The current regulatory system has served this country well, and before we play Russian roulette with it, we should make doubly sure that the cure proposed is not worse than the disease." The Air Transport Association, meeting in Washington, called the President's proposals "misconceived...