Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following is the transcript of an interview between Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident in the Soviet Union, and Columbia Spectator reporters Joseph Ferullo, Mitch Rollnick, and Suzanne Moore. The interview, which took place in Sakharov's Moscow apartment on January 19, is also being published in the Brown Daily Herald, Columbia Daily Spectator. Cornell Daily Sun. The Dartmouth, and the Daily Pennsylvanian...
...Could you tell us something about the Soviet academic system? What is taught and how? What are its basic ideas and goals...
Recently the Soviet Government decided that 700 Crimean Tartars must be expelled from the Crimea and today bulldozers came, and people watched the Tartars leaving. Then their houses were levelled by the bulldozers. People were deported in open trucks from Crimea. This is only one example, but it is very dramatic...
Early in the week, Cambodia's scant hope of political salvation was crushed by the Soviet Union, which is allied with Hanoi and supports the invasion. In New York City, the Soviets vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of "all foreign troops" from Cambodia. Even that resolution was mild, a sanitized substitute for Chinese wording that named the Vietnamese as "aggressor forces." To the embarrassment of the Soviets, the watered-down substitute was the work of seven nonaligned council members;* like others who listened to the debate preceding last week's vote...
Throttling back their Soviet T-54 and PT-76 Soviet tanks and ar mored personnel carriers, maintaining air control by means of captured U.S. F-5Es and A-37s, along with Soviet MiGs, the Vietnamese started a second-phase maneuver. They moved along rural routes into isolated areas seeking to surround and wipe out the pockets they had bypassed in the initial rush. Unable to bring ar tillery to bear on such swiftly moving foes, the Khmer offered only brief opposition and then faded back to secondary defenses...