Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nagging Doubts. As a chief target of Soviet intelligence, West Germany has been defended by its own security units, plus a dozen or so U.S., British and French agencies. When not trailing Soviet agents, these allied units sometimes practice on each other. In West Berlin, for example, the only phone line between the U.S. mission and the Soviet embassy in East Berlin goes through a British switchboard. Says a U.S. official: "We assume that the British are listening in on the line as well as the East Germans. If the situation were reversed, I'm sure...
...embassy to advertise his approval of the Dubček liberalization program. At the funeral of Writer Aleksei Kosterin (TIME, Nov. 22), a longtime friend, he turned his eulogy at Moscow's crematory hall into an eloquent attack on "totalitarianism that hides behind the master of so-called Soviet democracy...
Last week such exploits finally caught up with the aging warrior. Grigorenko had been warned that he faced jail if he carried out his latest crusade, a trip to Tashkent to act as counsel for ten Tartars about to stand trial for anti-Soviet activities. Nevertheless, he went. He had hardly reached Tashkent last week when he was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation...
Grigorenko's first outburst in 1961 -a criticism of the "Khrushchev cult" -eventually resulted in his discharge from the army followed by his commitment to a mental hospital for 14 months as a schizophrenic. This is a favorite Soviet punishment for dissenting intellectuals, short of shipment to a labor camp. Since then, because of his age, disability and service record-he had risen from private to general in 34 years and was a distinguished division commander in World War II-the government has merely admonished him for his outspokenness. Anti-Soviet agitation, however, is a serious charge. The possible...
...prices for their troubled fishing industry, which is suffering from growing competition. The Danes look to it for ways to reduce their staggering farm surpluses. The Finns see Nordek as a means of strengthening their commercial ties with the rest of Scandinavia and reducing their uneasy dependence on the Soviet Union. As for the Swedes, they see it as a way of broadening their powerful industrial base and moving deeper into the Russian market by way of Finland...