Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austria." Werner Wolf, former small town broadcaster, explained speed skating distances: "This is the 500 meter event--that's about five and a half football fields long." Curt Gowdy, on special leave from NBC's football and baseball coverage as well as a fishing buff, narrated the US vs USSR hockey game...
...charges of non professionalism at Peretz and says that Peretz's ideology sometimes influences the presentation of his facts. Pincus cites an article by Tad Szulc that appeared in The New Republic in June claiming Soviet violations of the SALT agreements. The piece made it seem as though the USSR was the only violator, Pincus says; it was ironically pro-U.S. military. He attributes the bias to Zionist criticism of the Soviet Union. "You can let the ideology come out in your conclusion but you have to offer the reader the basic facts," says Pincus...
...translator at press conferences for 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, Goldfarb stressed that he agrees with Sakharov that trade between the United States and the USSR be contingent upon guarantees of the right emigrate...
Kaptelov, who is Deputy Chief of the Organization Section of the Central Archives of the USSR, is being financed by the International Research and Exchanges Board, under a scholar exchange program
...MOTHER told me about a Popular Front meeting of socialists and communists at Brooklyn College in 1940, where the communists advanced a resolution that the USSR had not invaded Finland, but that in fact it had been Finland which had committed acts of aggression upon the people of Russia. As preposterous as the platform was, it passed after a long meeting, because, my mother explained, "The communists were much better sitters than we were--they never slept...