Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the class of '73? Glance through TIME and read about the war, Judge Haynsworth, the Green Berets, the Chicago trials, the hippie hunting, the Russian Jews and the Czechs. Then see if you don't feel a little disgusted with the status quo and the people who make the policies that determine how the rest of the world will live...
...Soviet Union has suggested that American withdrawal would greatly improve U.S.-Russian relations. Says Yuri Arbatov, of the Soviet Academy of Science's Institute of American Studies, Russia's leading America watcher: "I feel that the U.S. is a strong enough country to undertake such a step. Of course, it would hardly be seen as a U.S. victory, but it would be interpreted as an act of political wisdom and boldness." The Russians indicate that while U.S. withdrawal is not a precondition for starting disarmament talks, it would certainly help...
There is, of course, little likelihood that Moscow will allow Czechoslovakia to return to the liberalizing route charted by Dubcek before the Russian invasion of 1968. The oppressive days of Novotny, on the other hand, suddenly do not seem quite so distant. A nationalist at heart, Husak may very well try to steer a middle course, but for the time being the ultraconservatives, backed by the country's Soviet occupiers, are dominant. Late last month, they engineered the firing of 29 liberals and moderates from key posts in the government and party. Last week they claimed a host...
...State Department, and other agencies, many foreign Fellows are recruited. Ben Brown, director of the Fellows program, said that the Center has had a Yugoslav Fellow and has tried to attract Fellows from Rumania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. According to Vernon, the Center still has an invitation outstanding to a Russian official to be a Fellow...
Tully's most startling assertion is that months in advance of the event a Polish traitor handed a U.S. Defense Department agent detailed plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...