Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afford to spend $400 million raising worthless pieces of a sunken Russian submarine [March 31], surely we can afford to spend half that amount in Cambodia and perhaps preserve our credibility as an ally...
...display it in the state capital, Olympia, by July 4, 1976. But most Bicentennial projects in the West are drawn from the region's own history and heritage. Alaskans are rebuilding the Tlingit and Haida tribal houses in Angoon and restoring a log headquarters built in 1793 by Russian fur traders in Kodiak. Hawaiians are constructing a 60-ft., double-hulled sailing canoe in which a crew of 24 will leave on April 1, 1976, for a month-long voyage to Tahiti and back to demonstrate how the Polynesians discovered the Hawaiian Islands...
Within three months after last April's revolution, the Soviets had established a skeleton embassy staff under Ambassador Arnold I. Kalinin, 45, a smooth diplomat who had previously served as charge d'affaires in Havana. Today the Russian embassy has an official staff of 15-roughly the same size as the American mission. Perhaps more important, there are about 120 Russians and non-diplomats employed as administrative staff and as representatives of Aeroflot, Tass and the Novotny Bank...
...faced with the problem of a few hundred survivors of the Nazi holocaust who were unwelcome anywhere, and because a national community of 600,000 Jews already existed in Palestine. No imperialist state supported their settlement there, and they came through no imperialist motive: they came to escape Russian, Polish, and German persecution. They came to escape a massacre to which all great states, capitalist or communist, western or eastern, imperialist or any other term you will, were indifferent...
...publication is a cousin to the Moscow Chronicle of Current Events, a samizdat (publish it yourself) typewritten journal put out irregularly since April 1968 inside Russia and circulated hand to hand among Soviet dissidents. The New York Chronicle's 600 English-language and 300 Russian-language copies reach some of those dissidents as well as Soviet exiles in the West. There are also some impressive above-ground names on the subscription list: the CIA, the KGB, officials in Peking, Britain's Parliament and Western universities and libraries...