Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARRIED. Anatoli Karpov, 28, Soviet chess ace and world champion since 1975; and Irina Kuimova, 25, ex-staffer on the Soviet Committee of Youth Organizations; both for the first time; in Moscow...
...respiratory failure; in Los Angeles. The Hungarian-born Kadár, a wartime labor camp survivor, focused so sharply in his movies on the rights of individuals that Czechoslovak film authorities once suspended his license to work. He fled to the U.S. "to be a free citizen" when Soviet tanks crushed the brief "Prague spring" liberalization in 1968; that was three years after he had produced his masterwork, The Shop on Main Street, a haunting drama about an elderly Jewish woman who is betrayed to the Nazis by a cowardly collaborator...
...fiction writer, Wilson's eye was quicker than his hand. He would never equal Nabokov's magic. Yet, like most of the intellectuals of his time, Wilson was fascinated by all things Russian. He had written sympathetically about Lenin and the Soviet Revolution in To the Finland Station and had, at the time of his first meeting with Nabokov, added the aristocratic newcomer's language to his long list of merit badges...
...weeks since the American and Soviet governments announced that Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev would meet in Vienna, June 15-18, there has been little doubt that the SALT II treaty -the centerpiece of the encounter-would be ready for their signatures. Yet there has been considerable suspense about whether the summit would ever take place. Would Brezhnev's health hold up long enough for him to attend...
...Kremlinologists of the Carter Administration have been doing double duty as actuaries and diagnosticians, trying by remote means to calculate the risks of travel and take the pulse of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Both titles are held by a man of 72 who has eaten too much starchy food, smoked too many cigarettes and drunk too much vodka in a life full of stress, and who is now suffering from a variety of chronic neurological, respiratory and circulatory ailments. Brezhnev...