Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration favors more sympathy toward Turkey, which shares a 370-mile border with the Soviet Union. Turkey also controls the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, strategic straits that provide access to the Mediterranean for Russia's powerful Black Sea fleet. Moreover, Turkey's entire 500,000-strong armed forces have been seriously weakened by the arms embargo; the effectiveness of its air force has declined by 50%. Says Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Turkey supplies more ground forces to NATO than any other na tion. If Turkey is to continue to play its NATO role, our relationship must be revitalized...
Music, however, is not the only interest Russia holds for Kogan. She is a harpist of Slavic descent; this trip to Russia is a "Roots-inspired journey to go back to the homeland...
Kogan feels somewhat queasy about being in Russia. "It's the KGB looking over your shoulder. In my case it shouldn't be too difficult," confesses Kogan, who measures...
...Israel's president earlier this year. Throughout his involvement in his country's politics--which culminated in his five-year term in the largely ceremonial office of president--he has continued his research in biophysics. He has been a visiting professor at the Rockefeller Institute since 1961. Born in Russia in 1916, Katchalski-Katzir worked as a research assistant at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Columbia University before emigrating to Israel...
...when fleeing from Russia, he did not turn to the Promised Land but settled down in Poland, because the living conditions in Palestine at the time struck him as un-European, uncivilized and even somewhat Asiatic. Alas, the Poles and Lithuanians turned out to be almost as bad as the Bolsheviks. "Go to Palestine, you sickness of Europe," they told him. And so, he finally settled in Jerusalem, while his elder son went on lecturing on comparative literature at Vilna University, until the Nazis came and slaughtered him and his family. In Jerusalem Alexander Klausner went on writing his Russian...