Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet-Bulgarian space team landed safely in Soviet Central Asia after failing to link up with an orbiting space laboratory, Moscow radio reported yesterday...
...observers added that yesterday's failure, and the disastrous mission of Soyuz 25 in October 1977, shows a weakness in the Soviet ability to form an orbiting "sausage" of several vehicles...
Yesterday's was the first disappointment in the Intercosmos space program, in which the Soviet Union trains Eastern Bloc cosmonauts. It dampened in the Soviet Union yesterday's celebrations of the eighteenth anniversary of the first manned space flight--that of a Russian...
...course, there were some less than bright spots. Super Series '79, a media extravaganza in the guise of a three-game battle between the Soviet National Team and the best the NHL had to offer, ended in a humiliating 6-0 victory for the poised, tireless, quick-passing rink-rats from Moskva amd environs. Attendance declined notably in some NHL cities, and why Colorado still has a franchise when about 5000 fans show up per game--some by accident, no doubt--remains a mystery...
Sarah Caldwell, conductor, answering a Moscow invitation to exchange podiums with a Soviet woman orchestra leader: "I'm a conductor, not a woman conductor...