Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...
Behind the Soviet plan is concern that the region's deadly round of raid and retaliation could draw the U.S. and Russia into a showdown that neither wants. The Russians also want to protect their Arab clients from another military defeat, and have artfully shaped their proposal to tempt-and perhaps confuse-the U.S. as it changes administrations. For the first time, the Soviets do not peremptorily demand that Israel withdraw from its occupied territories before negotiations begin, as the Arabs have always insisted. Instead, the Soviets propose a package that would include Israeli withdrawal-to what lines...
Everything indicates that the Soviets would welcome them. Awaiting the astronauts' arrival in Houston was a telegram from ten Russian cosmonauts who have made successful spaceflights. "We followed very closely each stage of your flight," it read, "and note with satisfaction the precision of your joint work and your courage, which contributed to the excellent completion of this important experiment. We are confident that the exploration of outer space will greatly benefit earthmen. We congratulate you on a successful step toward this noble goal." In contrast to the terse and often dour notices that have frequently followed U.S. space...
Pravda (Moscow)-Without a doubt the calmest, most businesslike and most influential newspaper in the Soviet Union and perhaps in the world. As the guardian of the Party line, it takes a position on all questions of public life and the other media follow its lead...
...FROM PLAY. Both children and adults, says Berger, find "liberation and peace" in play. Why? Because "in playing, one steps out of one time into another," temporarily halting, in a way that suggests eternity, a world in which death occurs. Thus, the Vienna Philharmonic could give a concert as Soviet troops be sieged the city in 1945: "an affirmation of the ultimate triumph of all human gestures of creative beauty over the gestures of destruction...