Word: tula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before Carter's Inauguration, Leonid Brezhnev had signaled his readiness to work with the incoming President "to accomplish a major new advance in relations." Speaking at Tula, a three-century-old armaments manufacturing center 100 miles south of Moscow, the Kremlin chief pledged that the U.S.S.R. "will never embark on the road of aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford...
...remarks was significant. Immediately after the U.S. election, some Western experts had feared that Brezhnev would be tempted to test the new President by increasing East-West tensions (TIME, Nov. 29). Later Brezhnev sent word through former Treasury Secretary William Simon that this was not the case. The Tula speech and a surprisingly effusive orchestration of pro-Carter sentiment in the Soviet press have appeared to underscore Brezhnev's new assurances. This enthusiasm will probably be tempered by the Kremlin's angry response to the Carter Administration's statements on Soviet violations of human rights...
...yarn). Half the distaffs are covered with figures of birds, animals, and fanciful arabesques in bright tempera; the others are blond wood so delicately carved that they give the impression of lace. A great find was a group of clever toy whistles made by craftsmen in the Arkhangelsk and Tula regions from 1890 through 1910. The whistles are in the form of horses, dogs, bears, a hen and her chicks, and peasants, and are gaily decorated with bright yellow, peacock blue, and magenta stripes. My favorite one depicts a troika--three little horses' heads connected to one tiny horse...