Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the guise of getting broad lib eral educations, my wife and I received credit for most of the aforementioned courses and at highly accredited Western universities, too. Admittedly, that coeducational ballroom-dancing class was tough; I pulled only a C. (Never could get my hips moving in time with the music during the merengue...
...part of their sovereignty if they pledge themselves to abstain from developing the only weapons that confer big-league status. Also, Europeans in particular question America's willingness to expose its own cities to nuclear retaliation by launching ICBMs against the Soviet Union if the Russians should attack Western Europe...
...gunners on the occupied east bank. Then, along the 70-mile front, they opened up with a sustained barrage, promptly answered in kind by the Israelis. At a time when a settlement in the Middle East is much on the minds of the leaders of the U.S., Russia and Western Europe, last week's sudden flare-up of violence seemed even more than usually to fit Clausewitz's definition of war as "continuation of diplomacy by other means." It was equally ominous that for four days Arabs and Israelis were once again doing battle in the heaviest exchange...
Russia's secret-police agency, the KGB, is on a constant lookout for potentially useful Western visitors-and not above using sex to provide evidence for blackmail. With an increasing number of businessmen visiting Russia and other Communist countries, the British government has taken public account of this fact. In a pamphlet issued by the Board of Trade, it offers Britons the delicate warning that "a liaison between a visitor and a local girl will not long remain unknown to the local intelligence service. The girl may be acting for that service from the outset...
...Solzhenitsyn's new novel, Arkhipelag Gulag, reached the West, smuggled out in manuscript form without the author's knowledge or consent, and was being eagerly bid for by Western publishers. Banned by the Kremlin, as were the author's two previous novels, the work has long been circulating in Russia by hand-copied samizdat, the underground press. The book is said to form the last part of a trilogy with The First Circle and Cancer Ward. In it, Solzhenitsyn takes Gleb Nerzhin, Circle's hero, from the relative comfort of the prison scientific community...