Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neutron bomb uproar, Sir Ian Gilmour, defense spokesman in the Tory shadow government, lashed out: "There have been weeks of leaks and contradictions, and after an orgy of weakness and vacillation, the wrong decision has finally been reached. Mr. Carter has been scared off the neutron weapon by the Russian propaganda barrage. It now seems that the Kremlin has virtually a right of veto on weapons that NATO is allowed to deploy...
Both delegations were embarrassed at an incident that took place in front of the U.S. embassy while their talks went on. A Russian woman, Irina McClellan, married to an American professor of Russian history at the University of Virginia, chained herself to an embassy fence to protest a four-year Soviet refusal to give her a visa to join her husband. The woman was arrested and held for three hours, then released. Soviet authorities blocked transmission of U.S. wire-service photos of the incident and prevented CBS from sending satellite pictures of the woman chained to the fence. The next...
Hours later, Norwegian radar screens picked up the scramble of Soviet fighter-interceptors as the South Korean plane intruded on Russian airspace near the Kola Peninsula, which lies to the east of Finland. By that time, Captain Kim had activated his "7700" on-board distress signal...
...survivors interviewed in Helsinki were of some help, particularly in reporting that the Soviet account of the incident, which suggested the casualties and damage to the plane were caused by the lake landing, was not the whole truth. In fact, when the jetliner refused to respond to the Russian interceptors' signals, the Soviets had opened fire on the Korean craft. It was their bullets that killed the two passengers and damaged the plane, forcing it to land on the frozen lake near Kem, a landing one passenger described as perfect. After the landing, Captain Kim told his passengers that...
Marshall Shulman, 62. Sporting an old-fashioned green eyeshade and cultivating the air of an absent-minded professor baffled by governmental bureaucracy, the longtime director of Columbia University's Russian Institute has become Vance's closest adviser and a key influence on Soviet-American policy. He and Vance often lunch on sandwiches in the Secretary's private hideaway office. At first only a part-time consultant who commuted between Washington and his Columbia professorship, Shulman was persuaded to join Vance full time after the Administration's initial overtures to the Soviet Union on SALT were abruptly...