Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancer's spectacular defection leads to a U.S.-Soviet quarrel...
...eucalyptus-shaded boulevards of the old colonial city look as though they have not been painted since the French defeat in 1954. Inside, families are packed two or three to a room: some even occupy old bathrooms from which the plumbing has been removed. With the exception of a Soviet-financed development called the Kim-Lien subdivision, little new housing has been constructed in 25 years...
...news roundup much like those of the commercial networks, followed by a cascade of 15 to 18 features, each ranging upwards of 3 min. in length. Straightforward accounts of Andrew Young's resignation and the Mexican oil spill may be followed by playful reports on a teen-age Soviet black marketeer ($100 for blue jeans, $200 for a new Kiss album) or an interview with Marxist Professor Bertell Oilman, who invented the board game Class Struggle. When interest rates soared last week, All Things Considered explained the event by staging a 10-min. mock Italian opera, Grosso Interesso, with...
...Soviet city of Kiev, the group stood at Babi Yar, where during two years of Nazi occupation some 80,000 Jews were killed and thrown into a mass grave. Here a stark sculpture of monumental figures rises from a knoll. But the only evidence that Jews died here were the Hebrew words from Job, "Earth do not cover my blood," on the memorial wreath presented by the commission. Oddly, it was two non-Jews who did most to recollect the past. In his great poem, Babi Yar, Yevgeni Yevtushenko reminded his countrymen back in 1961, "I stand terror-stricken. Today...
...again he succeeded. Roman Rodenko, the Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, praised Wiesel's mission as "noble"; Soviet historians and writers first insisted that only Soviet citizens died in the war, not Jews as such. But they ended by promising copies of documents and inviting an exchange of scholars...