Word: ukranians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ukranian town of Novoselitsa, which Reed visited as a correspondent during World War I, recently opened the John Reed Museum and named a street after the author, the Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday...
Early in the fall Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a Ukranian dissident living in internal exile in the Soviet Union, accepted a two-year-old invitation from the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures to lecture here...
...then there is Andrew Drake. A mild that Ukranian nationalism will be his cause for his fourth book. Perfect vehicles for displaying the author's well-known and rabid hatred of the Soviets, Drake and his crew of "freedom fighters" make the moves that turn the grain shortage into possible Armageddon. There is something disturbing about the terrorist-as-hero syndrome so pervasive in contemporary thrillers, but with writers struggling to match newspaper headlines, they seem compelled to have characters willing to use extremism in defense of their vision of liberty...
...Kremlin, add immeasurably to the sense of reality. Superb mannered pillar of the English middle class. It is at first hard to understand what this man is doing among all these movers and shakers. We soon learn: "Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukranian, and a fanatic." Forsyth decides Bond-like gadgets also appear in delicious profusion, including a personal favorite, the "flash-bang-crash grenades," which blind anyone looking at them, blow out their eardrums, and "cause a ten-second paralysis." Just ten seconds...