Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets concede privately that, in the longer term, the turmoil in Iran has potentially worrisome consequences for the U.S.S.R. Islamic fundamentalism is anathema to Communism, and the Ayatullah is religiously akin to the Muslims of Soviet Central Asia just across the border. On the other hand, the National Security Council last week pondered the possibility that anarchy in Iran could lead to a radical leftist takeover. No doubt the same possibility has occurred to Iran watchers in Moscow. That helps explain the ambiguity of Soviet behavior so far: provocative Farsi-language broadcasts from a Soviet radio station in Baku, combined...
Reagan's view of foreign relations is similarly one of a nation beleaguered. "I know this is going to be a perilous time ahead," he says. "I think the arrogance of the Soviet statements and actions reveals how far they are probably going to go to test us. I guess the biggest reaction of anything I say is to my line that maybe we should stop worrying about whether the rest of the world likes us, and decide we are going to be respected in the world as we once were. I think this loss of respect is reversible...
Knighted art historian is exposed as a Soviet agent...
...story began in the 1930s, when Blunt, now 72, was a Cambridge don. Recruited by Soviet intelligence, he served as a "talent spotter" who recommended Britons for spy work. Among them were Undergraduates Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who later passed secrets to the U.S.S.R. while working in the British embassy in Washington after World War II. Blunt, a Marxist, joined British intelligence in 1940 and, said Thatcher, became an active spy himself. He supplied information to the Soviets until 1945, when he became royal art curator...
Burgess, who dined with British Cabinet ministers, concentrated on political intelligence; Maclean was an expert on the U.S. and British atomic-bomb programs. What secrets Blunt gave to the Soviets is unknown. He had no access to classified information after 1945, but he stayed in touch with Soviet intelligence...