Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday work boycott renewed fears that Solidarity's escalating demands could bring on a Soviet invasion. These worries were heightened by the arrival in Warsaw last week of Soviet Marshal Viktor Kulikov, commander in chief of Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces. Western observers interpreted Kulikov's visit as both a gesture of support for the Kania regime and a warning to the restive workers. Some analysts speculated that Kulikov may have discussed plans for joint maneuvers on Polish soil-an operation that could serve as a cover for Soviet intervention...
...visiting Soviets, Viktor L. Talroze and Ardalyon N. Ponomarev, both from the Institute of Chemical Physics in Moscow, were visiting the United States as part of a one-month exchange program between the National Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences...
...officers that he wanted to defect. It was the first such move by any of the estimated 85,000 Soviet military personnel who have occupied the country since last winter's invasion. Before long, the mysterious enlisted man had become the most prominent Soviet military defector since Lieut. Viktor Belenko flew his MiG-25 to Japan in 1976. The defection sparked off an international row and added an unpredictable new irritant to already testy U.S.-Soviet relations...
Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov had put Myshkin in the nets to replace starter Vladislav Tretiak at the end of the first period, which ended in a 2-2 deadlock...
...figure out an immediate U.S. response. Neither verbal outrage nor diplomatic pressure would suffice. Indeed, when before Christmas Soviet forces were detected massing for a possible Afghanistan invasion, Ambassador Watson delivered several warnings to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. They were ignored until Christmas Eve, when Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Maltsev coolly informed Watson that the invasion was about to begin. Said a senior U.S. planner: "There wasn't anything we could have said at that point that would have deflected them...