Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spassky is planning to marry Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a lissome brunette Frenchwoman who is a secretary in the French embassy in Moscow. Although the Soviet marriage bureau granted the pair permission to wed on Nov. 11, the Foreign Ministry began pressuring the French to force Marina, daughter of Russian émigrés to France, to leave the country by the end of September. Spassky feared that once his fiancée went, she would not be allowed to return for the wedding. Failing in his attempts to have the ceremony moved to an earlier date, Spassky complained, "I feel...
...struggle over Indochina is only part of the Sino-Soviet cold war. The Chinese fear a Russian encirclement -Moscow's allies on China's southern border could complement Soviet troops on China's northern flank. During his recent visit to Peking, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was told by the Chinese, "Our enemy is Russia." As Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping put it, "Two-thirds of the Soviet troops are now committed to the European front. But we are anticipating the day when they will be free to turn against...
...might or might not choose to impose any limits. Soviet demands have bounded erratically from as little as 1.8 million metric tons last year to 10.2 million tons so far this year. The Soviets would like to buy still another 11 million metric tons because of poor harvests in Russian wheatfields. The resulting shock waves have been felt throughout the U.S. economy and have contributed materially and psychologically to inflation in the supermarket...
Unfortunately, the script of Russian Roulette does not match its vignettes. George Segal, rumpled and deftly exhausted, appears as an intelligence operative named Shaver, suspended from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for decking a superior officer. Looking for a little freelance work to fill in the time before he goes back to his regular job, Shaver is recruited by a cynical spy named Petapiece (Denholm Elliott), the sort of fellow who sneaks a drag on someone's cigarette if it is left untended for a moment. Petapiece's proposition to Shaver is the elimination of Henke, a notorious...
...Russian Roulette is the sort of slender, dispensable but diverting story that needs many spurious complications to give it heft. The only real surprises it has to offer, though, are directorial grace notes. They indicate that Lombardo is a film maker capable of better things who ought to have the chance to do them...