Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toon also became involved in another U.S.-Soviet tiff. Russia's television network refused to broadcast the ambassador's July 4 address to the Soviet people, an annual event since 1974, because he would not delete a passage that said, "Americans will continue to state publicly their belief in human rights and their hope that violations of these rights, wherever they may occur, will end." Unwisely, Toon had not cleared his text with Washington...
...heart is a painter's mission, to make the world better." Besides his artwork Chagall is also dictating the second volume of his memoirs (the first volume was written in 1921-22). Speaking of his discovery of the Coóte d'Azur after he left Russia in 1922, he recalled: "I came here to search for flowers and birds, the crow and the fox, town rats and country rats...
...sure to follow. Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is "simply a button-down Stalin without the old man's dementia." He has not emptied the Gulag of its millions of prisoners nor have any of the lesser Gulags in all the other Communist nations been dismantled. In fact, when Russia relaxes its grip on nations like Rumania and Albania, their societies tend to become even harsher and more restrictive. "De-Russification," writes Revel, "does not mean democratization...
That haunting, half-familiar figure with the rifle is not Lee Harvey Oswald, but Actor John Pleshette, filming an ABC-TV movie about him. The film shows Oswald's years in Russia and his life with Marina, but switches in a key spot to fiction. The script eliminates Jack Ruby and his fatal shot from history, leaving Oswald alive to go on trial-Eichmann-like-in a glass box. The verdict on his guilt is being kept secret from Ben Gazzara, who plays the ambitious prosecuting attorney, and Lorne Greene, the defense attorney. Nor does Pleshette yet know...
...corporations conduct themselves abroad is not either. On the point of long-range strategy, Kendall pointed out that he began negotiating with the Soviet government in 1969, about when Kissinger himself did, and is still at it (PepsiCo has developed a lucrative business bottling soft drinks in Russia). Nathaniel Samuels, a director of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., asserted that one reason businessmen do not call on the U.S. Government for help abroad is that such a request often is "an invitation to trouble...