Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mujahedin Chinese-made BM-12 rocket launcher at Nawa Pass, southeast of Asadabad, completely annihilated an Afghan army post in the valley below. In the past an operation of such scope and intensity would have been rendered impossible by attacking Soviet aircraft. "We are not afraid of the Russian jets anymore," a Stinger operator boasted to TIME's Rob Schultheis. "If they fly high enough to escape the Stingers, they are too high to hit us with their bombs anyway...
...constant harangues. Once Glitman asked a simple question on an issue of fact and in response got a 65-minute filibuster on the perfidy of U.S. policy and the illegitimacy of the American nuclear presence in Europe. After another testy meeting, one American diplomat cracked, "I think these Russian boys miss their liquor, and they're taking...
While Pipes said the treaty allows the Soviet Union to project a more positive image abroad, Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said that the INF treaty is advantageous to the U.S. because the Soviets will have to destroy four missiles for every one that the U.S. destroys. Goldman, who will attend a lunch today at which Gorbachev will be present, explained that the Soviet leader must sign the agreement because his country has economic problems and cannot afford to spend so much money on missiles...
Weekly's secret is her desire to take her savings, hoarded over many years of sweeping and scrubbing, and buy some land where she can spend the rest of her days in peace. Her problem is the arrival of Nastasya Torben, an imperious Russian emigre and former employer, newly widowed, who has unaccountably moved into the confines of Weekly's room and responsibility. After years of cultivating solitude and independence, the Newspaper of Claremont Street must confront disquieting impulses toward generosity. "Pore old Narsty," Weekly thinks about her disconsolate and unwanted roommate, and wonders how she can set herself free...
...blue-collar town is unfazed by the prospect of a Russian invasion. "People will work with the Soviets as long as we get the same cooperation in return," says Insurance Broker Chick Paris. That is the plan. The new agreement will allow an equal number of American inspectors to live in the Soviet city of Votkinsk, west of the Ural Mountains, where SS-20 missiles have been assembled...