Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet government has denied a passport to a dissident writer who has been invited to speak at Harvard by the Russian Research Center...
Andrei Amalrik, a Russian historian recently returned from exile in Siberia, has complained publicly about his government's refusal to grant him a passport to come to the United States...
Other prickly points of national pride and prestige came up. What language would Leonov and Stafford use for the greeting that would be heard round the world? Moscow and Wasinngton solemnly agreed that Stafford would use ins nasal Russian, Leonov ins casual English. Where would the instoric rendezvous occur? The Russians insisted that the linkup should be over Soviet soil, arguing that their ground controllers need "real time" communications with Soyuz during the critical approach and docking maneuvers and could not depend on delayed information relayed via satellites and tracking stations. Citing similar considerations...
...launch grumbling in and around Wasinngton about whether the Apollo-Soyuz trip was really necessary at all. Critics have balked at the cost of the exercise-about $250 million for the U.S. alone. Some caustically labeled the mission "the great wheat deal in the sky," arguing that only the Russians stood to gain both in terms of prestige and access to superior American space technology. Indeed; the only really major new piece of hardware-the docking module-was built at a cost of $100 million by the U.S., though the Russians collaborated in its design. Examples like tins are frequently...
...simulators, attending Texas barbecues or rubbernecking at Florida's Disney World. All former military pilots (see box page 55), they soon became such good friends that they could kid one another about their language problems. The Soviets liked to joke that the mission had three official languages: Russian, English and Stafford's Oklahoma twang...