Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news from Norway that the Nobel Peace Prize had been given to a Russian for the first time in the 74-year history of the award was broadcast to the Soviet Union last week by U.S. and West European short-wave radio. For Winner Andrei Sakharov, 54, the prize climaxed a long and often lonely struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union. Dressed in a baggy gray suit and ill-fitting shirt, he talked with newsmen in his gloomy two-room apartment near the Kremlin. "I hope this will help political prisoners," he said. The phone rang constantly with...
Federal agents were also striving to locate a lone man-name withheld-who was said to be stalking Ford. He was reported to be a member of the American Indian Movement, armed with three high-powered rifles and a Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifle...
Married. Boris Spassky, 38, former international chess champion; and Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a secretary at the French embassy in Moscow; he for the third time, she for the first; in Moscow. When Spassky first announced his intention to marry the pretty French-born daughter of Russian emigres, Soviet bureaucracy said she would have to leave the Soviet Union by Sept. 30. Anxious to avoid an international scandal on the eve of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's October visit to the U.S.S.R., Russian authorities relented. Said Spassky: "Now I have an extra queen...
...recurring back problem which flared up last week has caused Barrington J. Moore Jr., senior lecturer on Sociology and Senior Research Fellow of the Harvard Russian Research Center to cancel his fall term courses, his secretary said Wednesday...
...professional polka band, Chicopee proclaims itself the Kielbasa Capital of the World, while across town South Boston mothers wear buttons calling Southie "The Irish Riviera." Groups bound by common heritage are attracting more and more attention from the media: Londoners picket the Bolshoi to show their sympathy for Russian Jews, Brando passes up his Oscar for the sake of Native Americans, and the Basques help Franco destroy himself. Filmmakers have taken a renewed interest in the ethnic backgrounds of their protagonists, from Jimmy Cliff to the Corleones, and even prime time TV, exploiting the trend for all its worth...