Word: yakovlev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November, in Gorky, I was no longer simply aware of my heart, I could feel it burning, in flames. The Academy of Sciences Hospital in Moscow took ! an electrocardiogram and said there was nothing wrong. I went back to Gorky, taking with me a new book by Nikolai Yakovlev, CIA Target -- the U.S.S.R., which attacked both Andrei and me. (Yakovlev is a Soviet historian whose specialty is the U.S.) On April 25, 1983, I suddenly felt something sharp pierce me. I could not move or cry out. Then, slowly, almost creeping along, I reached Andrei's nitroglycerine pills...
ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 62, Ambassador to Canada from 1973 to 1983, who most recently controlled the propaganda department, joined Dobrynin in the Secretariat. His elevation bolstered rumors that the entire propaganda machinery would fall under Yakovlev's purview...
...submarine had invaded Swedish waters. Such an inquiry required the presence of Skipper Gushin, but he refused to leave his ship, even when entreated by two Soviet diplomats. The Swedes settled in for a possible siege, as Gushin awaited orders from his naval superiors. Although Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Yakovlev took what Swedish officials described as the "very unusual" step of apologizing for the incident, Foreign Minister Ola Ullsten later declared, "Of course that's not enough. We have to complete the interrogation...
...their fear of the Chinese and their anger at the American tilt toward Peking, Soviets appear somewhat more sanguine about their ability to contain what some still call "the yellow peril" than they did a decade ago. Says Alexander Yakovlev, a leading Sinologist at Moscow's Institute for the Study of the Far East: "China does not have the military strength to threaten world peace on its own, and even the military and economic aid of the U.S. and other Western countries will not make a big difference...