Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eternal Brotherhood With the Soviet Union" propaganda approach somewhat heavyhanded. A Polish student in Gdansk (known in history books as Danzig) told me a joke that is currently making the rounds among his friends. An orange is rolling on the Polish-Soviet border, and two border guards, one Russian and one Polish, find it simultaneously. The Pole claims that it is on the Polish side of the border, therefore his; the Russian insists that the opposite is true. The two are pretty much at a loss for what to do, when finally the Russian has an idea. "In the spirit...
Last week in efforts to smooth out the roller coaster and placate critics. President Ford moved to regulate future U.S.-Russian grain deals. He dispatched a high-level negotiating team to Moscow to try to work out stable, long-term grain purchase agreements; the group is headed by Charles Robinson, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. To allow time for the negotiations, Ford also extended for a month, until Oct. 15, the moratorium imposed last month on additional grain sales by Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
Minimum Level. The moves are largely political and are aimed most immediately at mollifying big labor. AFL-CIO President George Meany had denounced the grain purchases as part of maintaining a "phony" détente with the Russians. Responding to Ford's announcement, longshoremen called off their boycott of Russian-bound wheat; they had refused to load it, then complied with injunctions ordering them back to work. Ford also gave assurance that negotiations over shipping rates paid by the Russians would go on, to ensure that at least one-third of the grain would be carried in U.S. vessels...
...agreement does follow that pattern, its effect in holding down price increases would at best be long-run and indirect. Assurance of a continuing Soviet market might encourage U.S. farmers to plant more crops. Also, building up of a Soviet grain reserve might discourage sudden and inflationary purchases when Russian crops fail. But nothing in the Japanese agreement prohibits additional purchases beyond the agreed minimum, and it is likely that a Soviet agreement would not do so either. Whatever the terms of a U.S.-Soviet arrangement, they are expected to be worked out quickly; talks among lower-level officials have...
After some hairsplitting qualifications, he anoints as the first modern war correspondent William Howard Russell, who wrote the account of the charge of the Light Brigade-and later performed brilliantly during the U.S. Civil War. Had he been educated by the Russian side, Knightley might have recalled that a young second lieutenant brought the horrors of the Crimean War home to Moscow with his articles from Sevastopol. They miraculously passed through the censors untouched, and bore the byline Leo Tolstoy. R.Z. Sheppard