Word: sovietism
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...might not have a record so different from Buchanan's accumulated words and positions. As New York's Mayor Giuliani last week complained, Buchanan was an ardent defender of Karl Linnas, the convicted Nazi war criminal, even trying to stop his 1987 deportation from New York to the Soviet Union. His tireless defense of accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk was partly justified. There's substantial evidence that Demjanjuk was not the Butcher of Treblinka he was accused of being in an Israeli court. But he was indisputably a camp guard. Even so, Buchanan could not resist comparing him with...
Though Yeltsin may personify the post-Soviet era, all the elements of a successful politburo-style road show were in place: the mink-hatted acolytes, the handpicked entourage of veterans, the phalanx of sullen, gray-coated security agents. But as Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even...
PHILADELPHIA: Aldrich Ames may soon have a new cell mate. On Friday, Robert Lipka (Soviet codename "Rook"), a former employee of the secretive National Security Agency was arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. Oleg Kalugin, former head of the KGB's foreign counter intelligence service described Lipka in his book, 'First Directorate', calling Lipka's material "significant." During the 60's and 70's, Lipka allegedly photographed and stole classified documents and then sold them to Soviet agents. He apparently quit because he wasn't paid highly enough. TIME'S Douglas Waller says the case "will...
...says he has some success collecting the one million signatures required to appear on the ballot. but even if he somehow fulfills the requirements before the April 16 deadline, he faces almost no support from Russians that view the former communist party boss as the man who orchestrated the Soviet Union's untimely demise...
DIED. JOSEPH BRODSKY, 55, exiled Russian poet, 1987 Nobel prizewinner and poet laureate of his adopted U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York City. Brodsky's 1964 Soviet trial for "parasitism," prompted by the underground distribution of his works, made him a cause celebre in the West and led to his expulsion in 1972. His intense verses, filled with images of loss and wandering, won him wide acclaim and America's highest honor for poetry...