Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popularity is global [June 25]. In Australia, a farmer asks when the next John Wayne film will come out. In Burma, the Duke's picture hangs in a corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back in the U.S.. a South African tourist asks...
...competition with the Russians to reach the moon, NASA showed that it could cooperate with them as well. In 1975, in what was a last hurrah for Apollo, the space agency launched a command module emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes to hitch up briefly with a Soviet Soyuz displaying the Hammer and Sickle. This celestial handclasp between old adversaries involved more politicking than space exploration, but it did set an important precedent for future cooperation in the cosmos as well as on earth. Indeed, although the U.S. and the Soviet Union have jousted over many other issues, they have...
...former Secretary of State made some foreign policy news, although it did not involve the Middle East. In an interview that the Washington Post published during his trip, Kissinger blasted the Administration's Rhodesia policy for favoring Black African radicals rather than moderates, thus contributing to Soviet and Cuban expansionism. Privately, State Department officials complained that Kissinger was not well versed in current U.S. policy and that his views would bring about the very increase in Soviet influence he feared most...
...populist who writes political tracts, has an earthy sense of justice and strong opinions about private property, reasonable food prices and the availability of water and electricity. He detests the Pahlavi dynasty and everything the Shahs stood for. He hates foreign influence, especially from the Americans. He is anti-Soviet. He has always advised the Iranian masses to shun Communism. He said earlier this year that he would never collaborate with the Marxists. His view: "We know they would stab us in the back...
...Proxmire and Wolston vs. Reader's Digest Association (1979), Time Inc. vs. Firestone (1976). A scientist whose publicly funded research had been ridiculed as wasteful by a U.S. Senator, a former Government translator who had been cited for contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Soviet espionage, and a prominent Florida socialite embroiled in a highly publicized divorce were all held not to be "public figures" as libel plaintiffs. The court ruled that someone must "thrust" himself into a prominent public controversy in order to become a public figure. In effect, these decisions made it easier...