Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Stryguine awoke the next day, he began cursing his guards and the Soviet Union. As his guards tried to silence him, he cried out in English, "I'm not the traitor. It's you fellows who are. Talk in English so everyone here can understand what you are saying!" He screamed to bewildered nurses to call the Burmese police and army, that he needed protection, begged them to "call War Office 130," the telephone of Burmese army intelligence...
Burmese guards understood no English, and let the Russian goons overpower him. The Russians carried him back to his hospital bed, had him shot full of dope, and then, despite hospital protests, insisted on removing him to the Soviet embassy...
...Baghdad, the Ministry of Health decided to requisition the American Seventh-day Adventist hospital because it had been "a source of danger, suspicion and distrust." It will be confiscated and restaffed with Soviet doctors arriving late this month from Moscow...
...serious is the threat presented to man by fallout-the radioactive debris that settles invisibly over the earth after test explosions? Reactions range from unconcern to the near side of panic. Alarmed by recent announcements of sizable fail-out increases over North America since the U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests in October, a subcommittee of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held hearings last week, listened to scientists' reports addressed to two pivotal questions: How much of fission's byproducts -notably strontium 90, which enters the body in food, accumulates in the bones and may cause leukemia...
...force of geography, Russian test explosions are in northern latitudes. Evidence was presented that fallout from Soviet polar shots is caught in the downward drafts of arctic air and delivered to earth quite rapidly (in about a year), while debris from equatorial explosions probably stays up longer. Largely as a result of Russian polar shots last year, twice as much strontium 90 fell on the U.S. as in any previous year...