Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department one of the planners says the U.S. is now "shadow dancing" with the world, changing military budgets, talking tough with allies, all as part of the plan to reach into the mind of the Ayatullah Khomeini and go even farther-to the Kremlin. The experts believe that at last a spell is being cast beyond the White House, establishing the belief that Jimmy Carter, a reluctant dragon, could indeed bring himself to order fellow Americans into battle...
...President has learned to be deeply grateful for the Prime Minister's strength and support. In the Iranian crisis, Thatcher has been more encouraging "from the first moment," Carter noted, than other allies. On defense, Thatcher, dubbed the "Iron Lady" by the Kremlin, led the support of Washington's proposal to modernize NATO'S arsenal with medium-range nuclear weapons, readily accepting them on British soil...
Pravda's dual reaction to the centennial reflected the ambivalence of the present Soviet leaders, most of whom rose to power during Stalin's regime. As the dictator's surviving heirs in the Kremlin, they are reluctant to expose crimes for which they share at least moral responsibility. Thus sharp condemnation of Stalin ceased after Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964; since then, books and films have praised him as a great wartime leader. As for ordinary Soviet citizens, nearly half of whom were born after Stalin's death, a surprising number seem scarcely to have...
Most U.S. analysts believe the Soviets simply had not settled on a coherent policy to cover the radically changed situation. The Kremlin leaders may delight in the rise of anti-American sentiments in Iran and elsewhere, but they must realize that they do not necessarily reap benefits when the U.S. loses. Moscow's experience has been that even some of its most faithful clients rebel in exasperation. As one top Administration expert puts it: "When the Soviets go into a country in the Middle East, they tend to muck around and not really achieve much improvement in the local...
...last week's historic Eucharist. But Dimitrios' effort could be frustrated by Orthodoxy's largest branch, the Church of Russia, which rivals the Ecumenical Patriarchate's authority and is inhibited in any pursuit of Christian unity by the wishes of the Soviet state. To the Kremlin, Catholicism is an alien influence that stirs up Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalism and threatens Soviet power...