Word: yuri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three opponents asked for postponements because of nervous strain. Invariably, Bobby's victims say that they were defeated because they were playing "below strength." "People have been playing me below strength for 15 years," says Fischer scornfully. "There is some strange magnetic influence in Bobby," says Soviet Grand Master Yuri Aver-bakh, "that spiritually wrecks his opponents...
Acid Holes. Another expatriate in Rome, Painter Yuri Titov, 44, last week was desperately trying to save some of the 62 pictures he took out of Russia last month. Titov and his wife -both members of a group called the "Democratic Movement"-had departed Moscow only after "it became ab-olutely impossible for us to live there any longer," and had insisted on taking the pictures with them. After the paintings had cleared Soviet customs in Moscow and been put aboard an Aeroflot plane, acid was surreptitiously poured on the painted surfaces of the Christ figures, Crucifixions and icons that...
...last-ditch attempt to salvage a draw, Petrosian gave up. Pleading "low blood pressure," the Armenian asked that the next game be postponed. He was past help. Fischer took the next three games in stunning fashion and won the match 6½ to 2½. Afterward, Soviet Grand Master Yuri Averbakh, Petrosian's trainer, explained that "Tigran's spirit was completely broken after the sixth game. Anyway, it is impossible to win a world title when you are over 40. Spassky is 34 and will demand the maximum from Fischer...
...Soviet secret police, of course, have a dual function. At home they were never busier than during the Stalin era, when they organized and executed the purges and ran the labor camps. Today the KGB is headed by Yuri Andropov, 57, a Brezhnev Protégé who is clearly subordinate to the political arm of the party. A powerfully built man over 6 ft. tall, Andropov proved his ruthlessness in Hungary as ambassador at the time of the 1956 uprising. It was he who encouraged a delegation of Hungarians to meet with top Soviet officers in Budapest to talk about...
...protesting: "This just can't be. I am a friend of Vic Feather's [head of the Trades Union Congress]. I was drinking whisky with him at lunchtime." Edouard Ustenko, a second secretary, was equally surprised. "Impossible," he said. "There will be nobody left." Embassy Counselor Yuri Kashlev told the newspaper: "I have just come from Manchester, a welcome by the Lord Mayor and a rapturous reception. Now this. It doesn't make sense." In New York, a Soviet diplomat observed wryly: "I would not have thought the British would be so uncivilized...