Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cong; but the total is less than the $150 billion the U.S. has spent in Viet Nam since 1950. Moreover, the relatively modest Soviet investment in Hanoi's future was made with minimum risk of military confrontation with the U.S. and with loss of only a handful of Russian lives. During the past year, ideologists writing in Soviet party journals have quietly reflected the Kremlin's glee. In addition to the U.S. disaster in Indochina, they have pointed to reverses perceived as signs of capitalist disintegration. They include the setback to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...week, loudspeakers boomed out the Kremlin's May Day greeting to the Soviet people. It was the supreme holiday of international Communism, yet not a word was uttered to congratulate the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong on their overwhelming victory. Among the placards carried by 100,000 Russian workers on their May 1 march, only one referred -obliquely-to the event: "Fraternal greetings to the heroic Vietnamese people," it read. The Communist Party daily Pravda was a nonchalant 36 hours late in reporting the news of Saigon's surrender. North Vietnamese diplomats assigned to Hanoi...
...Sunday afternoon, don't miss the first authentic performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture on this continent since last May. Once again, Lowell House's Russian Bells will assist the St. Lowell-in-the-Fields Orchestra in an outdoor, sightreading extravaganza...
...miracle has been wrought," Gamal Abdel Nasser proudly announced to the people of Egypt after completion of the first stage of the Aswan High Dam. Indeed, the great structure-built with Russian aid and designed to harness the Nile and vitalize the stagnant Egyptian economy-has irrevocably changed the environment of the Nile River Valley and the lives of its inhabitants. But the results have not all been positive, and there is growing debate about whether the economic benefits of Aswan are outweighed by the ecological damage that it has caused...
Historical attention-partisan and otherwise-has mostly centered onYalta and the deals made there by the dying Franklin Roosevelt. But it was actually at Potsdam that the wartime Anglo-American-Russian collaboration fell apart. The division of Germany was sealed there as postwar spheres of influence were confirmed. In the West, a shocked public blamed the intransigence of Stalin. But in this close and lively look at the three Potsdam participants Charles Mee, the former editor of Horizon now turned popular historian, gives nobody credit for good intentions...