Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since written dozens of space stories on subjects as diverse as Skylab, extraterrestrial intelligence and proposals to colonize the moon. "Space exploration," Golden says, "shows human beings in their finest moments-adventuring, dreaming and looking to the future." As we went to press three days before the Russian and American lift-offs, all hands here hoped that the mission would take place on schedule-and safely...
While American and Russian astronauts were preparing to go through their elaborate ballet in space, American and Russian diplomats were continuing their own interminable dance. Without any apparent hindrance from the Soviets, the U.S. prodded Israel and Egypt toward a second-stage agreement in the Sinai. As Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met in Geneva, there seemed new possibilities for agreement on nuclear arms limitation...
Both the Somalis and the Russians at Berbera appeared surprised last week by the zeal of Senator Bartlett and the Pentagon specialists who accompanied him. .After landing in 110° heat on a bumpy dirt runway, they set off immediately to inspect the area. A U.S. technician scrambled atop one of nine newly built fuel-storage tanks and whipped out binoculars for a better view. Another sifted through refuse in a men's room at the port, looking for Soviet cigarette butts. The Russians at Berbera, of whom there may be as many as 1,000, were obviously under...
...will also be visible evidence of the detente between East and West on which Brezhnev has staked his reputation. TIME Correspondent John Shaw's three-year residence in the Soviet Union as Moscow bureau chief has spanned nearly the entire era of detente. Shortly before leaving the Russian capital for reassignment, he cabled the following summing-up of the U.S.S.R...
Died. Wolf Ladejinsky, 76, Russian-born land reformer; in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Soviet and Asian farm policies, Ladejinsky was tapped by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 to draw up a land reform bill for occupied Japan. The legislation he drafted emancipated Japan's tenant farmers enabling millions of them to acquire title to their plots and toppling forever the base of Japanese feudalism...