Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli forces. To make up for the huge losses Syria suffered in the 1973 war (7,000 men, 600 tanks and 165 aircraft), the 230,000-man army has been rebuilt and re-equipped by the Soviets, with the help of 2,000 to 3,000 Russian advisers. "The Soviets have turned Syria into a huge weapons depot," says one Western military analyst. "But it's an embarrassment of outdated hardware. This means that the Syrian army's combat capability is very inefficient. About all they can do is defend...
...goes in the chilly waters off Norway these days, where a fleet of ostensibly civilian Soviet ships has been poking about where it has no apparent business. In the past five weeks, at least ten Russian craft have played nautical cat and mouse with the Norwegians. Says Norway's chief of defense staff, General Sverre Hamre: "We seem to be subject to something like old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy...
...imports. Though U.S. goods are sometimes superior, Carter's move would hardly cripple the huge Soviet economy, and Moscow can always turn to other countries that are eager to do business. Said one top U.S. official in Washington: "It's a Greek tragedy. We are challenging the Russian manhood. Do we really think that the Russians are going to free dissidents over a computer that they could buy from the French...
...Cezanne and Matisse were exhibited in London, the Royal Academicians complained about "Bolshevism in art." They were in a sense right. Within 20 years the Victorian subject-pictures had ceased to be the glory of English collections; they had become a storage problem, a social embarrassment, like certain White Russian exiles...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld -Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad First Person Rural, Noel Perrin Reflections, Waller Benjamin Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn