Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly competitive, and more nations than not are closed totalitarian societies. And not all countries, by any means, are willing to inform us in advance of what they are going to do, even if it may be inimical to our national interest. An example of this was the great Soviet wheat steal of 1972, where we simply lacked the statistical data base to drive the proper bargain for our national interest...
...intelligence has suffered from another, even more ironic disadvantage: U.S. officials enjoy such close ties with Iranians in power that they have been reluctant to develop contacts with Iranians in the opposition. Bemoaned one intelligence expert: "I think we probably knew more about Muslim dissidents on the Soviet side of the border than we did about those in Iran." The Shah drastically underestimated the strength of his opposition, and the U.S. followed suit...
Castro also took the opportunity to scoff at Washington's concern over the disclosure that the Soviet Union had delivered 20 high-powered MiG-23 Flogger jets to Havana. One version of the Flogger can carry nuclear weapons, and its presence in the Caribbean would be a serious violation of the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The MiG-23s are "purely of a defensive nature," insisted Castro. He added that Cuba had received the warplanes a year...
While a team of 40 doctors from eight nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, sought to remove the clot, one prognosis already seemed clear. The tall, austere Algerian leader will rule no longer. An era in which Boumedienne thrust stability on a fledging country and brought it eminence is ending. No successor has been groomed, and Boumedienne's demise could lead to a power struggle. Some observers believe that the two factions in the nine-man Council of the Revolution, one led by dapper Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, the other by Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui...
...time it seemed as if the biennial general conference of the 146-nation United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris would be remembered for adopting Soviet-style curbs on press freedom. But last week, applauding delegates passed by acclamation a U.S.-supported compromise, lifting at least temporarily a threat that has been hanging over the West since...