Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Criticism of the Soviet fighter pilot's actions by Viktor Linnyk, a political consultant in the Soviet Department of International Affairs, who accused the pilots of being "trigger-happy...
...statement to reporters by Viktor Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the Communist Party daily Pravda, chastising Soviet military leaders for waiting six days before admitting the airliner was shut down...
...beginning to seem as if not all the pawns were on the board. During the current World Chess Federation championship tournament, Soviet officials were playing some sort of game of their own. First Viktor Korchnoi, 52, the Soviet defector who now lives in Switzerland, was set to face U.S.S.R. Whiz Kid Gari Kasparov, 20, in a semifinal match at Pasadena City College in California. But Kasparov never showed because, it was rumored, the Soviets feared he might defect. Three days later, former World Champion Vassily Smyslov, 62, was also disqualified, for boycotting a match against Hungary's Zoltan Ribli...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Viktor Korchnoi, 52, tempestuous Soviet chess grand master who defected in 1976; and Beta Korchnoi, 50, who emigrated to Switzerland last year with their son Igor, 23, after the young man spent 30 months in a Siberian labor camp for refusing military service; after 25 years of marriage; in Wohlen, Switzerland. Korchnoi, who twice lost world championship matches to erstwhile Countryman Anatoly Karpov, pleaded with Leonid Brezhnev to allow his family to leave in 1978, though he was linked romantically with his Austrian-born manager, Petra Leeuwerik...
...controls the conventional police, or militsia. That move appeared to compromise a formal separation between the police and the security service that has been in effect since 1954. The new chief of the KGB is Viktor Chebrikov, 60, who served for 13 years as Andropov's deputy...