Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DISARMAMENT: "Each stage of disarmament," said Khrushchev in his departing Washington press conference, should be "accompanied by the development of inspection and control." The West, accustomed to Russian doubletalk on disarmament and thoroughly unimpressed by Khrushchev's big U.N. propaganda pitch, took a hard look at this statement, got ready to find out, when the nuclear-test-ban talks resume next month in Geneva, if the Russians will take a more realistic position on inspection...
ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACEFUL USE: In Vienna, where Atomic Energy Chairman John McCone went to attend a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, word leaked out that McCone and his Russian counterpart, Vasily S. Emelyanov, will trade inspection trips of their respective atomic energy labs and installations. A member of the Khrushchev party, Emelyanov told McCone that the development of atoms for peaceful use must be a joint program, "because it is just too expensive for one country alone...
First to place Acheson's criticism in a political context were not Republicans, but the liberal Democratic New York Post. Taking editorial issue with a byline story by its own Washington correspondent, William V. Shannon, who described the U.S.-Russian talks as nothing more than "another form of dithering by a weak, cowardly, reactionary Administration," the Post said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even...
...important was the fact that Peking's mulish behavior both at home and abroad had strained relations with its Soviet Big Brother. Devoutly Communist as Peking professes to be, there have always been tensions between Russia and Red China-a fact that emerges clearly from the comments of Russian technicians who have worked in China. "In little ways," says a Soviet chemist, "the Chinese showed us up, and sometimes behind our backs they called us Big Noses, as if we were no better than oldtime imperialists...
Soviet students, Azrael finds, are generally content. "Tourists who meet Russian youths on the street tend to get an exaggerated impression of discontent among the university students." He was struck by the large extent of "satisfaction, defined in a great variety of ways, among the Soviet student body...