Word: yuri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speakers included Gov. Francis W. Sargent, his opponent for re-election, Democratic candidate Michael S. Dukakis, Boston College professor Yuri Glazov, a recent immigrant from the Soviet Union and Shimson Inbal, Consul-General of Israel in Boston...
...take the guise of local political movements. Moreover, Communist dictatorships without inquisitive legislatures or press can organize and finance secret operations in other countries in a way that no open society can. Unlike American leaders, Communist leaders never acknowledge such activities. The Soviet Union's KGB, headed by Yuri Andropov, regularly runs what the Russian bureaucrats call aktivniye meropriyatiye (literal translation: active measures). The KGB's budget is unknown, but it has about 300,000 employees, many of them assigned to domestic duties like operating the vast network of prison camps. Overseas, a majority of the Soviet embassy personnel...
After failing at least three times in attempts to complete a Skylab-type orbital mission, the Russians were not about to take any unnecessary risks in their latest effort. As Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, both 44, whirled around the earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they...
...candidate" and as "head of the Politburo"-an interesting title since the Politburo supposedly has no head. If there is opposition to détente in Moscow, Brezhnev has effectively silenced it, at least publicly, and even those who are thought to be ideological hardliners, like Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, now publicly support Brezhnev's foreign policy...
...cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent of American spies is spilling into the U.S.S.R., in the guise of businessmen, scholars, students, tourists and diplomats. Underscoring the supposed menace, Soviet Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov addressed the nation on television in a rare public appearance last month. "Reactionaries spend millions of dollars for intelligence and subversive services in hostile work against us," he charged. "The imperialists know we cannot be conquered militarily, so they seek to weaken the unity of the Soviet people and erode...