Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said to have expressed years ago about the English young: "They've got enough food, sexual freedom and indoor toilets. Why the deuce aren't they happy?" West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light, somewhat like the turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet...
...possible only if Egypt joined in. Jordan has little air support for its small (85,000-man) but well-trained army. Roughly half of Syria's forces are either keeping the peace in Lebanon or guarding the tense frontier with Iraq. Libya and Iraq have plenty of Russian equipment to offer the confrontation states, but neither country borders on Israel. As for the Palestinians, their only option is sporadic terrorism directed against 1) moderate Arab states or 2) Israeli border communities. The latter choice almost invariably leads to savage reprisals...
From Russia with love came ebullient Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. In Rome on a patriotic mission-to read some poems at a gala Italian program in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution-Yevtushenko also went to the theater with an Italian heiress, jogged in the Villa Borghese and told a reporter how deeply he had been affected by Federico Fellini's most recent movie, Casanova. "I am a woman chaser," said the poet, 44, "and Fellini made me understand how hateful it is to touch a woman you don't love. From the moment...
Isaac Stern, violinist, in praise of Livingston L. Biddle Jr., the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts: "My Russian friends tell me it's not the ministry of culture that you worry about. It's the culture of the minister...
...Semi-Tough falls short of the goal line. Ritchie packs his scenes with slapstick asides, including Korov the place-kicker whose only lines are in Russian; these are cruder than Altman but at times exhilaratingly funny. But Ritchie still doesn't know how to use actors--he should hope six-foot eight, 275-pound Doug Atkinson, the prototype for Jenkins' defensive end T.J. Lambert, doesn't see this movie. Ritchie's biggest mistake might have been firing Ring Lardner Jr. as the scenarist. Lardner's credits include M.A.S.H. and he probably genetically knows more about pro athletes than Ritchie. Kristofferson...