Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duel stems from certain noxious remarks made by Mr. Holmes. To wit; "Stalin was a great man, and Russia needs more of them"; "Russians and other Orientals are the intellectual inferiors of other races"; and "I want to be President...
...winds of Russia's winter blew very little that was good for the Soviet Union this year. The Central Statistical Administration of the U.S.S.R. last week released its figures on the performance of the Soviet economy in the first three months of 1979, and they were bleak. The coldest winter in 75 years sent temperatures plummeting to -45° C in Moscow suburbs and severely damaged pipes, power lines, railway beds, trucks and roads across the country. Never a strong point of the Soviet economy, transportation became a major national problem as a late spring delayed necessary repairs...
...cope with serious management problems. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Soviets find themselves with natural resources in the East, population growth in the Central Asian republics and the bulk of their industry in European Russia, and they don't know how to put the three together...
...party state with built-in democratic mechanisms would be preferable to a two-party or multiparty system. Land, land, land, land has been the main source of grievance in the country. We have got to make land the people's property and distribute it. China did not wait, and Russia did not wait?they started as outright Marxist. We have got to develop ourselves along those lines. We don't have to hide anything...
...decisions in American foreign policy, must be improved. At present, it is spotty: good in some areas, bad in others. A prominent consumer of CIA reports on Capitol Hill gives the agency an over-all grade of Cminus. The agency gets pretty good marks for its reporting on Russia and China, and it feels it has stayed on top of developments in turbulent Central America. In Iran, on the other hand, it was embarrassingly inept. Says Birch Bayh, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "Technologically, it's unbelievable what we have the capacity to do. Our weakness...