Word: thesoviets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earlier this year, The Cleveland Plain-Dealerobtained a Justice Department memo in which adifferent prosecutor asked Ryan to pressure theSoviet Union for information about Ivan Marczenko,now widely believed to be the real "Ivan theTerrible." It is not known whether Ryan, in aJanuary 1980 trip to Moscow, asked Sovietofficials about Marczenko...
...demonstrate the foolishness of the system,Smith recounts the monumental inefficiency of theSoviet trucking industry. Since transportation ismeasured in kilogram-miles, Soviet truckers preferto lug heavy cargoes of lumber halfway across thecountry, rather than trying to minimizetransportation costs...
...free of that world now," Bennett said ofthe liberal university environment. "Does theSoviet dissident wish to return as the head of thegulag...