Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consider his analysis of the Middle East. "The Shah's Iran" is "the only stable right-wing country in the area." Israel, with its powerful army, has become a neutral nation. And Egypt has once again swung over into the Soviet camp. Perhaps it would be spiteful to point out to General Sir John that, despite his access to top-secret documents, he has missed the basic point of recent U.S. military policy in the Eastern Mediterranean--to keep Israel as a friendly naval and air base in light of the instability of both Greece and Turkey...
...refurbished. On the newly installed track, times were slow last week, but that could have been partly because of the paucity of world-class sprinters. As at most Olympic venues, the seating is bleacher-style and tough on the back and posterior. Rest rooms are a testament to the Soviet bladder: one ladies' room, for example, serves for nearly 10,000 spectators with just three toilets...
Although visitors will eat most meals in their hotels, 150 restaurants, cafés and snack bars are being built near the Olympic sites and on main thoroughfares. The new eateries will serve European food, Soviet regional specialties and such national favorites as blini (pan cakes), borscht (beet soup with sour cream) and pelmeni (stuffed dumplings...
While Westerners fretted about language difficulties and transportation, Soviet officialdom worried aloud about sinister influences. The chief of the Moscow City Communist Party, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin, said Muscovites should be cordial to visitors, but he exhorted them to "stress the advantages of the Soviet way of life ... and repulse the propaganda of alien ideas and principles...
...last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...