Word: transcaucasians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not report statistics, auto crashes are numerous, and the fatality rate is high. In some areas, more than a third of the auto accidents result in the death of at least one person. Maybe things will get better in the next generation. In several Soviet towns, including the Transcaucasian city of Kirovabad, local traffic authorities have set up kiddie-town driving schools, where five-and six-year-olds drive miniature cars along scaled-down streets and intersections to learn the rules of the road...
...sunny, Transcaucasian Republic of Georgia might be described as the Sicily of the Soviet Union: a warm, wine-growing land whose 5 million, mostly dark-eyed inhabitants are known far and wide as clannish, passionate and shrewd. They are also notoriously unconcerned with the principles of socialism where making money is concerned. The Georgian penchant for private enterprise has long troubled Moscow, and lately its concern has been increasing. Over the past few months, a series of fires and bombings have racked Tbilisi, the capital, and, usually in typical veiled fashion, Communist officials admit that the region's entrepreneurs...