Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, newspapers and radio broadcasts were filled with vituperation against Alexander Dubcek and the rest of Czechoslovakia's liberals. Ever since the Soviet invasion 13 months ago, the country's progressive leaders have had their influence stripped away gradually...
...Tampering. Though Thang has served as president of the North Viet Nam-U.S.S.R. Friendship Association and has been awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Peace Prize, he is not expected to tamper with Hanoi's delicate relations with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected...
...seemed well on its way to becoming a world power. Now that prospect is remote. To be sure, the indexes of improvement over 1949 are impressive (see chart opposite). China has emerged as a formidable Asian power, a member of the nuclear club,* and an ideological challenger of the Soviet Union. But it also remains economically backward, militarily weak, politically divided and alienated from much of the world...
Pyotor L. Kapitza. a noted Soviet physicist and outspoken critic of political orthodoxy, has begun a three-day visit to Harvard. He will deliver a lecture on "The Education of Scientists in the Soviet Union" at 4:45 p.m. today at the Loeb...
...speech widely circulated in the West last Spring, Kapitza criticized Soviet technology for lagging behind the West's and urged Soviet ideologists to take a less rigid view of Western student political movements...