Word: russian
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Stalin murdered millions, but seldom assassinated to enforce foreign policy. It might be argued that the elimination of Leon Trotsky in his Mexican exile in 1940 was an act of policy, but he was a Russian. A better example was the death of Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948, a defenestration that the official report described as suicide but was almost surely an act of the Kremlin...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Moscow Radio Symphony; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Melodi-ya/Angel, $6.98). Who needs another recording of the Tchaikovsky Fifth? Listen and discover how exciting this music can be without the excessive retards and breakneck tempos that often pass for authentic Russian interpretation. Rozhdestvensky, a principal conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, plays the work straight. Yet in the way he builds his performance from the inside out, making sure that the smallest phrases are in place, he gives the impression of blissful discovery. Part of the conductor's complete cycle of the Tchaikovsky symphonies...
Venus has long been an irresistible target for Russian space scientists, who have sent at least nine unmanned probes arcing toward the cloud-shrouded planet -compared with only four sent by the U.S. Last week, as Venus moved into a favorable position once more (as it does every 18 months), the Soviets launched two more ships on the four-month, 230 million-mile journey...
Scarcely three hours after Sadat's convoy sailed through, the first five merchant ships-Kuwaiti, Greek, Chinese, Russian and Yugoslav-moved into the waterway that Sadat has melodramatically described as "a hostage for peace." At the Bitter Lakes, they met the first northbound convoy in eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after...
Gayle Hollander, who will be taking her second year at the institute next year to finish a study of the issues of political equality for Russian women in the Russian social democratic movement, said yesterday that her experience at the institute has been "wonderful...