Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following day, at his Washington press conference, Carter once again addressed himself to the growing strain between the U.S. and Russia and defended his Administration's attacks on Cuban adventurism in Africa...
Despite our post-Viet Nam aversion to direct military involvement of any sort, the Zaïre invasion by Marxist rebels seems another oblique push from Mother Russia, and one which will necessitate action if similar activities continue to occur. The question is when will Jimmy Carter draw the line on this conspicuous, albeit indirect, Soviet expansionism...
Through intense suffering our country [Russia] has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music...
...West Bank, which almost certainly would be demilitarized in a peace settlement giving it autonomy, has no airport, no arms factories and no means to build them. Pointing to the millions of Palestinian exiles living in Lebanon, Jordan and other Arab states, they ask: Why should Jewish emigrants from Russia and the U.S. have the right to settle on land that Arabs have lived on for at least 1,000 years, while refugees born in Haifa and Jaffa cannot go home again...
...dean of a Boston secretarial school founded by his father. Eight years ago, a group of children at a camp asked him to tell them a story. He wove a druidic spell for 35 minutes, making up the story as he went along. It was about a creature in Russia that set upon other animals. "The impact was tremendous," he recalls. "Then and there I decided to give up my job and write novels." He and his wife Linda moved to rural Marshfield, Mass., to operate the local Y.W.C.A. so that he could write. Two unpublished novels and five years...