Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has taken the lives of 12,000 black and white Rhodesians over the past six years. But last September, in one of the war's grislier episodes, an Air Rhodesia plane on a flight out of Kariba airport to Salisbury was shot down by guerrillas using a Soviet-made SAM7 heat-seeking missile. Ten of the 18 survivors were then murdered on the ground. Last week death again struck Kariba holidayers...
DIED. Edvard Kardelj, 69, Yugoslav Communist ideologist and heir apparent to President Tito; of cancer; in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. When his nation was expelled from the Soviet-led Cominform in 1948, Vice President Kardelj devised its new ideological foundation, granting greater freedom to local factories and party cells as well as pioneering a foreign policy of nonalignment. Until taken ill five years ago, the loyal official was widely expected to succeed Tito...
...Administration is clearly right in wanting to bury gold as a monetary reserve. It would be dangerous to make the official wealth of the world's nations dependent upon the erratic supplies of a metal that comes largely from South Africa and the Soviet Union, whose governments can pump up or cut off sales at will. But gold will continue to glitter until a stable and acceptable monetary substitute can be found. In theory, there is nothing wrong with continuing to use the dollar as the world's primary currency for international trading and holdings of national reserves...
...Sort of," said Rozelle, and placed a call to the Kremlin. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev came on the line. "You guys think you're so tough," said Pete, "how about a little game of football...
...Soviets ran 60 yards for a touchdown. Then they ran for five more. Fearsome Jack Lambert of the World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers managed to tackle one Soviet back, confining him to a gain of only 30 yards. "What are you guys smoking?" he hissed...